Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Shareholding
23 July 2026
Jet2 plc
(the "Company")
Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Shareholding
Jet2 plc, the Leisure Travel group, announces that on 22 July 2026, Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer, was granted options over 102,242 ordinary shares of 1.25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the terms of the Company's Share Reward Plan ("SRP") and 15,336 Ordinary Shares pursuant to the terms of the Company's Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan ("SEIP") and Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer, was granted options over 78,061 Ordinary Shares pursuant to the terms of the SRP and 11,709 Ordinary Shares pursuant to the terms of the SEIP.
The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provide further details.
For further information, please contact:
Jet2 plc
Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 0113 238 7444
Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer
Institutional investors and analysts:
Mark Buxton, Finance and Investor Relations Director
Tel: 0113 848 0242
Cavendish Capital Markets Limited - Nominated Adviser
Matt Goode / George Lawson
Tel: 020 7220 0500
Headland Consultancy - Financial PR
Ed Young / Will Smith / Jack Gault
Tel: 020 3805 4822
Notes to Editors
Jet2 plc is a Leisure Travel Group, comprising Jet2holidays, the UK's leading provider of ATOL protected package holidays to leisure destinations across the Mediterranean, Canary Islands and European Leisure Cities and Jet2.com, the UK's third largest airline by number of passengers flown, which specialises in scheduled holiday flights. In the financial year ended 31 March 2026, over 63% of flown passengers took an end-to-end package holiday with the remainder taking a flight-only.
Jet2 currently operates from 14 UK airport bases at Belfast International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool John Lennon, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Stansted, Manchester and Newcastle.
NOTIFICATION AND PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF TRANSACTIONS BY PERSONS DISCHARGING MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND PERSONS CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Steve Heapy
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Executive Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Jet2 plc
b)
LEI
I72RQ3PNLDPW8R7JIJ56
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Ordinary Shares of 1.25p each
Identification code
GB00B1722W11
b)
Nature of the transaction
Award of options over Ordinary Shares the pursuant to the Company's Share Reward Plan
c)
Price(s) and volumes(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£0.0125
102,242
d)
Aggregated information
N/A single transaction
Aggregated volume
N/A single transaction
Price
N/A single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
22 July 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
Outside of a trading venue
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Steve Heapy
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Chief Executive Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Jet2 plc
b)
LEI
I72RQ3PNLDPW8R7JIJ56
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Ordinary Shares of 1.25p each
Identification code
GB00B1722W11
b)
Nature of the transaction
Award of options over Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan
c)
Price(s) and volumes(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£0.0125
15,336
d)
Aggregated information
N/A single transaction
Aggregated volume
N/A single transaction
Price
N/A single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
22 July 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
Outside of a trading venue
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Gary Brown
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Group Chief Financial Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Jet2 plc
b)
LEI
I72RQ3PNLDPW8R7JIJ56
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Ordinary Shares of 1.25p each
Identification code
GB00B1722W11
b)
Nature of the transaction
Award of options over Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's Share Reward Plan
c)
Price(s) and volumes(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£0.0125
78,061
d)
Aggregated information
N/A single transaction
Aggregated volume
N/A single transaction
Price
N/A single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
22 July 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
Outside of a trading venue
1
Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated
a)
Name
Gary Brown
2
Reason for the notification
a)
Position/status
Group Chief Financial Officer
b)
Initial notification/Amendment
Initial Notification
3
Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
a)
Name
Jet2 plc
b)
LEI
I72RQ3PNLDPW8R7JIJ56
4
Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
a)
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Ordinary Shares of 1.25p each
Identification code
GB00B1722W11
b)
Nature of the transaction
Award of options over Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan
c)
Price(s) and volumes(s)
Price(s)
Volume(s)
£0.0125
11,709
d)
Aggregated information
N/A single transaction
Aggregated volume
N/A single transaction
Price
N/A single transaction
e)
Date of the transaction
22 July 2026
f)
Place of the transaction
Outside of a trading venue
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