Jet2 Adds 13 New Gatwick Routes
Jet2 is building up its London Gatwick operation with 13 further routes for Winter 2026/27, the airline's first full winter programme since establishing itself at the airport earlier this year. The additions span three very different kinds of getaway: warm-weather escapes, short city breaks built around the festive markets, and direct access to Alpine ski resorts.
The winter-sun routes are Agadir, Funchal on Madeira, Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada. The festive city-break group covers Tallinn, Vienna, Cologne and Gdansk, timed to run through the Christmas-market season rather than year-round. The ski group adds Grenoble, Turin, Geneva, Salzburg and Chambery, opening up resorts across France, Switzerland, Austria and Italy from a single South East airport.
Jet2 only began operating from Gatwick on 26 March 2026, making it the carrier's 14th UK base. Reaching a substantial winter schedule within six months of that launch marks a quick build-out, and it sits alongside a much larger expansion across the airline's network: 34 new routes have been added nationwide for the winter season.
Among the sunshine additions, Agadir is scheduled twice weekly on Mondays and Thursdays, giving passengers a direct link to Morocco's Atlantic coast. The Funchal service to Madeira is also twice weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, starting 26 October, and offers a different style of winter break built around walking country and mild temperatures rather than beach resorts alone. Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada extend Jet2's Egyptian programme from Gatwick, both resorts known for Red Sea diving and considerably warmer winter temperatures than the UK.
The Christmas-market routes are each scheduled only for the festive window rather than the full winter. Cologne runs from 26 November to 21 December with up to four flights a week, and Jet2 has described it as an exclusive route from Gatwick during that period. Gdansk operates twice weekly, on Mondays and Fridays. Tallinn runs between 19 November and 13 December on Thursdays and Sundays, giving access to the Estonian capital's medieval old town. Vienna has the most frequent festive service of the four, with four flights a week between 19 November and 21 December.
On the ski side, Geneva — one of the Alps' busiest gateway airports — gets four flights a week from 19 December. Chambery, useful for its proximity to several French resorts, follows a three-times-weekly pattern from 21 December. Grenoble operates at weekends during the ski programme, while Salzburg runs weekly on Saturdays from 26 December and Turin weekly on Sundays from 13 December, each opening up a different corner of the Alps to passengers flying from Gatwick.
These 13 new routes sit within a far larger Gatwick winter schedule rather than representing Jet2's entire programme at the airport. Before this announcement, the airline had already listed well over 400,000 seats across its debut Gatwick winter, spread over 24 destinations in total — 15 for winter sun, five for skiing and four built around Christmas markets.
Nationally, Jet2 is reporting its biggest winter programme to date, with capacity reaching 6.3 million seats across 42 destinations — over half a million more seats than the equivalent period last year, an 8.7% rise in capacity overall. Jet2 chief executive Steve Heapy has linked the growth to strong demand across every category the airline serves in winter, from sunshine and skiing to city breaks and Christmas markets.
For passengers across London and the South East, the practical benefit is choice. A route that previously meant travelling to Stansted or another base can now, in several cases, be reached directly from Gatwick instead — skiers heading for Geneva, Grenoble, Chambery, Salzburg or Turin no longer need to cross London to find a direct flight. Rather than competing with Jet2's existing Stansted operation, Gatwick gives the airline a second substantial gateway into the London market.
More routes from Gatwick also mean more journeys to and from the airport, and winter adds its own travel-planning complications. Poor weather, roadworks, accidents and heavier-than-usual Christmas traffic can all extend journey times on the approach to Gatwick, particularly on the M23 and the wider roads feeding it from Central London.
Gatwick operates two terminals, North and South, and confirming the correct one in advance matters for anyone booking a private transfer — arriving at the wrong terminal means an extra journey before check-in even begins. Flight details are also worth checking again close to departure, in case an airline adjusts its operating terminal or schedule.
We run round-the-clock pre-booked transfers to and from Gatwick. A passenger departing is picked up from home, a hotel or another address of their choosing and driven straight to the right terminal, while an arriving passenger has their flight tracked so a driver is sent out based on when the aircraft actually lands rather than its printed arrival time. Supplying the correct flight number at booking is what makes that tracking possible, which matters most when a flight ends up well ahead of or behind schedule.
With Jet2 now flying from Gatwick throughout both summer and winter, and adding sunshine, ski and Christmas-market routes in the same season, the airline's presence at the airport looks set to keep growing — giving South East passengers considerably more choice about how they start a winter holiday.
Written by London Airport Transfer for passengers travelling to and from London airports.