Channel Express

{{Short description|Defunct airline of the United Kingdom (1978–2006)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}

{{Infobox airline

| airline = Channel Express

| logo = Channel Express Logo.png

| logo_size = 140

| IATA = LS

| ICAO = EXS

| callsign = CHANNEX

| founded = {{start date|1978|01||df=yes}}
{{small|(as Express Air Services)}}

| commenced = {{start date|1983|||df=yes}}
{{small|(as Channel Express)}}

| ceased = {{end date|2006|01||df=yes}}
{{small|(rebranded as Jet2)}}

| bases = Bournemouth Airport

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| parent = {{ubl|class=nowrap

| Channel Express Group {{small|(1983–1991)}}

| Dart Group plc {{small|(1991–2006)}}}}

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| headquarters = Christchurch, Dorset

| website = [http://www.channel-express.co.uk/ channel-express.co.uk]

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File:G-CELP Channel Express.jpg

Channel Express (Air Services) Limited was an airline with its head office in Building 470 at Bournemouth Airport in Christchurch, Dorset, near Bournemouth."[https://web.archive.org/web/20000919023208/http://www.channel-express.co.uk/html/hindex.html Contact Information]." Channel Express. Retrieved on 31 December 2011. "Channel Express (Air Services) Limited Building 470 Bournemouth International Airport Christchurch Dorset. BH23 6SE." It operated scheduled services from Bournemouth to the Channel Islands and nightly cargo services to Europe and throughout the UK on behalf of Royal Mail and other overnight express carriers. Short notice and ad hoc charters were also operated throughout Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as wet-lease operations on behalf of major scheduled airlines. Its main base was Bournemouth International Airport (BOH).

In January 2006 the name Channel Express was dropped, and the company rebranded entirely to become Jet2, the name given to the company's successful low-cost airline.