Jet2 has confirmed plans to launch flights between Manchester and Porto from early July, a year earlier than originally intended.
In November the low-cost carrier announced Porto as a new destination for summer 2025, with routes from both Birmingham and Manchester.
But Jet2 said that “on the back of huge demand for city breaks and flights” the Manchester-Porto service would now operate between 4 July and 3 November, with twice-weekly flights on Thursday and Sundays.
Jet2 will join easyJet and Ryanair on the route, both of which offer year-round flights between the two cities.
The Birmingham-Porto route remains scheduled to launch on 25 March, 2025.
Jet2 recently announced plans to launch flights to Morocco from six UK airports starting in winter 2024, including routes from Birmingham and Manchester to both Marrakech and Agadir.
Commenting on the news Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, said:
“Since announcing the launch of the brand-new city destination of Porto, we have experienced phenomenal demand.
“We always listen to what our customers and independent travel agent partners are telling us so we have acted quickly to bring forward the launch of Porto by a whole year, meaning flights and city breaks to Porto are now available from Manchester Airport for Summer 24.
“As the largest operator of European city breaks this expands our programme are even further, and we know this news will be a huge hit with customers looking to travel to this superb city.”
