The airline Jet2.com announced at the International Tourism Fair in Madrid (Fitur) that it will increase flights to Lanzarote with three more this summer, reaching 70 weekly flights, which represents nearly 20,000 additional seats, bringing the total to 420,000 seats.
In the **Canary Islands as a whole**, there will be approximately 46,000 extra seats for summer 2026, bringing the total to over 1.6 million. The company announced in a statement that starting April 3rd, it will begin operating at **La Palma** airport, with 2 weekly flights from Manchester for a total of around 12,000 arrival seats, and will open routes to London-Stansted and London-Gatwick from the end of October. **Tenerife South** will once again be Jet2.com's second most important airport in all of Spain, only behind Palma, with over 660,000 arrival seats and more than 100 flights per week in high season. In **Gran Canaria**, the offering will be about 13,000 more seats than in summer 2025, reaching a total of over 290,000 potential tourists on arrival and with a peak of 47 flights per week. **Fuerteventura** will be the airport with the largest projected growth, thanks to approximately 23,000 more scheduled seats than in the previous season, with around 250,000 in total and a maximum of 42 flights per week in high season. In this way, Jet2.com will reach about 260 weekly flights in high season, with direct flights to all its **14 bases in the United Kingdom**: Bournemouth, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, London-Gatwick (new for the four main airports of the archipelago in 2026), London-Luton, London-Stansted, Newcastle, Bristol, Birmingham, East Midlands, Belfast, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Jet2holidays, the airline's associated tour operator and provider of complete vacation packages, will work directly with almost 450 hotel establishments in the archipelago. Jet2.com and Jet2holidays have also joined the constitution of the Alliance Commission for Regenerative Tourism, in order to be part of the working group that will aim to finalize the design of the RegNext program, intended to "turn tourism into an active lever for the environmental and social regeneration of the archipelago," the company pointed out in the note.