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Beachgoers leave their towels as they take a dip in the ocean in Mallorca on July 26. UK slapped a 14-day quarantine requirement on travellers arriving from Spain on Sunday.
The decision leaked ahead of an official announcement on Saturday, upset the plans of hundreds of thousands of British tourists sunning themselves on the shores of the Mediterranean and raised the spectre of limits on more countries. A total of 9,835 flights are scheduled to leave the UK for Spain between July 26 and Aug 31, which equates to a total of approximately 1.8 million scheduled seats, according to Aviation data analysts Cirium.Airline and travel shares tumbled: EasyJet fell 13%, British Airways’ owner, IAG , fell 7% and the TUI travel company fell 8%.
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