Britons have been flying into airports including Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Birmingham and Bristol.
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Tourists were forced to flee hotels and sleep outside as fires spread towards resorts on the eastern coast.Tour operators and airlines have been sending repatriation flights to bring people back to the UK over the last couple of days as holidaymakers have been left with no choice but to evacuate their accommodation and sleep in schools, airports and sports centres.
EasyJet and Tui have also cancelled outbound package holidays to Rhodes until Saturday and Friday respectively. "It was really quite traumatic driving to where we went because you could see everyone fleeing their hotels, and people were walking along the beaches, walking along the roads, and they had babies and small children," Mrs Jones told the PA news agency.
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