Grant of Awards and Director/PDMR Shareholding.


    11 August 2025 07:01:59
  • Source: Sharecast
RNS Number : 6972U
Jet2 PLC
11 August 2025
 

11 August 2025

 

Jet2 plc

(the "Company")

 

Grant of Awards and Director/PDMR Shareholding

 

Jet2 plc, the Leisure Travel group, announces that Steve Heapy, Chief Executive Officer and Gary Brown, Group Chief Financial Officer, received 87,591 and 66,875 ordinary shares of 1.25p each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") pursuant to the vesting of an award granted under the Company's Share Reward Plan, detailed in the announcement released on 20 July 2022.

 

In order to fund the income tax, National Insurance liabilities, option price, broker and administrative fees arising on the shares received, on 7 August 2025, Steve Heapy and Gary Brown subsequently sold 41,411 and 31,617 Ordinary Shares at £16.372 per share and retained the balance of 46,180 and 35,258 Ordinary Shares, respectively.

 

Following these transactions, Steve Heapy beneficially holds a total of 401,294 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.194% of the Company's issued share capital, and Gary Brown beneficially holds a total of 193,207 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.0934% of the Company's issued share capital.

 

On 25 July 2024 the Company incorrectly included unvested awards into the beneficial holdings calculation and reported that Steve Heapy beneficially held a total of 459,795 Ordinary Shares and Gary Brown beneficially held a total of 238,122 Ordinary Shares. The correct beneficial shareholdings for Steve Heapy and Gary Brown, following the vesting of awards, are included above.

 

The notification 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 239 7692

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

Katy Birkin / George Lawson


Tel:             020 7220 0500

Burson Buchanan - Financial PR

Richard Oldworth / Toto Berger

Tel:             020 7466 5000

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 2025, over 66% of flown passengers took an end-to-end package holiday with the remainder taking a flight-only.

Jet2 currently operates from 13 UK airport bases at Belfast International, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool John Lennon, 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

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£16.372

41,411

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

7 August 2025

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

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volumes(s)

Price(s)

Volume(s)

£16.372

31,617

d)

Aggregated information

N/A single transaction


Aggregated volume

N/A single transaction


Price

N/A single transaction

e)

Date of the transaction

7 August 2025

f)

Place of the transaction

XOFF

 

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