Grant of Options and Director/PDMR Shareholding

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Jet2 plc has announced that on July 22, 2026, Chief Executive Officer Steve Heapy was granted options for 102,242 ordinary shares under the Share Reward Plan and 15,336 under the Senior Executive Incentive Plan. Additionally, Group Chief Financial Officer Gary Brown received options for 78,061 ordinary shares under the Share Reward Plan and 11,709 under the Senior Executive Incentive Plan. These option grants, all at an exercise price of £0.0125 per share, are part of the company's incentive schemes for its senior management.

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Jet2 PLC
23 July 2026
 

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:

 

Tel:             0113 238 7444

Tel:            0113 848 0242

Tel:             020 7220 0500

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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