Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Jet2 plc announced that on July 17, 2026, Chief Executive Officer Steve Heapy and Group Chief Financial Officer Gary Brown exercised options for a total of 185,181 ordinary shares. To cover tax liabilities, they subsequently sold an aggregate of 87,558 ordinary shares at £14.74 each. Following these transactions, Steve Heapy's beneficial shareholding is 459,001 shares (0.2409% of issued capital), and Gary Brown's is 237,821 shares (0.1248% of issued capital). Neither executive plans further immediate sales.

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Jet2 PLC
20 July 2026
 

20 July 2026

 

Jet2 plc

(the "Company")

 

Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Jet2 plc, the Leisure Travel group, announces that on 17 July 2026, Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer, and Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer exercised options over, in aggregate 185,181 ordinary shares of 1.25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to awards granted under the Company's 2023 Share Reward Plan and the Company's 2023 Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan.

 

The Ordinary Shares awarded pursuant to the exercise of options were satisfied out of the Jet2 Employee Benefit Trust.

 

To satisfy the payment of personal tax liabilities and other costs associated with the Ordinary Shares received, Steve Heapy and Gary Brown subsequently sold, in aggregate, 87,558 Ordinary Shares at a price of £14.74 per Ordinary Share on 17 July 2026. Neither Steve Heapy nor Gary Brown plan any further sales of Ordinary Shares in the immediate future.

 

Details of the exercise of options and subsequent sale of Ordinary shares by each of Steve Heapy and Gary Brown are as follows:

 

Director

Previous beneficial shareholding

Options exercised

Ordinary Shares sold

Resultant beneficial shareholding

Resultant beneficial shareholding as % of issued share capital

 

 

The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the UK Market Abuse Regulation, provides 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

Exercise and sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's 2023 Share Reward Plan

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£0.0125

72,419

£14.7452

34,241

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

17 July 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

XOFF

 

 

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

Exercise and sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's 2023 Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£0.0125

32,589

£14.7452

15,409

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

17 July 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

XOFF

 

 

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

Exercise and sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's 2023 Share Reward Plan

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£0.0125

55,292

£14.7452

26,143

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

17 July 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

XOFF

                                                                    

                                                                    

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

Exercise and sale of Ordinary Shares pursuant to the Company's 2023 Senior Executive Incentive (Deferred Award) Plan

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£0.0125

24,881

£14.7452

11,765

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

17 July 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

XOFF

 

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