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Neil Shaw & Catherine Addison-Swan

Airports set for packed Friday as 5 million jet off on holiday for Christmas

Airports are expected to be particularly busy this Friday as around five million Brits head abroad for Christmas.

Travel trade organisation Abta said that it expects 23 December to be the busiest date for plane travel over the festive period, while Christmas Day is set to be the quietest. Destinations including southern Spain, Portugal, Turkey, the Canary Islands and Egypt are in high demand this winter as holidaymakers jet off to warmer climes after a spell of freezing weather in the UK.

More than three million passengers are expected to travel through the UK's busiest airport Heathrow within the last two weeks of December, WalesOnline reports. This Christmas will mark the first in three years that many Brits have been able to fly abroad without strict Covid travel restrictions in place.

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