Yes they do, but you can lease them.
That only makes them more expensive. Jet2 owns the aircraft and they are cheap airframes so that makes it possible to park them in the winter. Leases will kill you because you will have more expensive airframes plus a bank that wants to make a healthy margin on it too!
The biggest danger to Jet2 as I see it, is that if they suffer a hull loss with an ageing aircraft, it could wipe them out completely ala Valujet.
That is total non sense. Valuejet had a string of problems BEFORE the crash and was under FAA scrutiny BEFORE the crash. The crash had nothing to do with an ageing airframe but with a MX contractor sending oxygen generators in an unsafe condition
In short total bull@cks!
