Germany charters 30 times more rescue flights for citizens than UK
Huge repatriation effort sees German government charter 42 flights as 300,000 Britons remain stranded worldwide
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The German government has taken the lead role in the biggest repatriation effort in peacetime, chartering 30 times more rescue flights than the UK and flying home more than 40,000 travellers from across the world, according to figures obtained by the Guardian.
As British tourists waited for details on Dominic Raab’s £75m rescue mission, the German embassy in London revealed it had now repatriated 42,000 German nationals from 60 countries on 160 charter flights over the past two weeks.
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