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It was a fairly dire day for travel and tourism shares yesterday as London’s main equity indices headed south. The FTSE 100 index dropped 11.8 points to end the day at 4542, while the FTSE 250 lost 29.5 points to close at 6359.3. British Airways probably suffered the most, with profit –taking causing the price to drop 12p to 320.25p after a good run. EasyJet also had a difficult session, dropping 9.75p to 328p, as did lastminute.com – down 8p to 223.54p – while the best performance came from First Choice, which added 5p to end the day at 147p. Alpha Airports 74.5p DOWN 5p BAA 539p DOWN 7.25p British Airways 320.25p DOWN 12p Carnival 2521p DOWN 17p De Vere 422p UP 15.25p EasyJet 328p DOWN 9.75p Ebookers 466p DOWN 5p EuroDisney 29.5p DOWN 0.5p Eurotunnel 38p DOWN 0.5p First Choice 147p UP 5p Hilton Group 228p UP 0.75p Holidaybreak 594p DOWN 15p Intercontinental 538p DOWN 6.5p Lastminute.com 223.5p DOWN 8p MyTravel 13.75p UP 1p P&O 237p UP 1p Rank Group 320p UP 2.25p Ryanair 325.25p UP 6.625p Stagecoach 84.25p NO CHANGE TBI 67p NO CHANGE Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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