Biggest airlift brings home 22,000 tourists
Sunday, September 14 2008
An airlift unparalleled in peacetime swung into operation over the weekend to start bringing home 85,000 tourists stranded abroad by the collapse of travel operator XL Leisure. A total of 94 repatriation flights brought back 22,090 holidaymakers from Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean and Florida in the US. The Civil Aviation Authority, which arranged the £20million operation, described the task as its 'biggest repat...
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