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France to end travel ban and Covid hits airline staff

Government
Rob Gill
12 January 2022

Headlines in Wednesday’s national press suggest France’s ban on UK holidaymakers is about to be lifted as a leading airline struggles to cope with the impact of staff shortages caused by Covid-19.

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The front pages, meanwhile, are dominated by prime minister Boris Johnson’s troubles as he faces his “deepest” leadership crisis over the Downing Street party scandal.

Elsewhere, the Costa Del Sol is seeing a surge in bookings for spring breaks and tennis star Novak Djokovic has blamed his agent for making an “administrative mistake” on his travel entry form to Australia.

Here are the headlines the travel industry woke up to on Wednesday (12 January).

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