"A small group of individuals were removed from an Air France flight on Monday due to travel from Heathrow to Paris after a legal challenge, according to multiple newspaper reports. The passenger flight went ahead without any people who crossed the Channel on board and is one of several throughout the week on which the Home Office has booked seats."
"The pilot scheme, announced during Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the UK in July, allows the UK to send asylum seekers who have travelled across the Channel back to France in exchange for those who apply and are given approval to come to Britain. Formal removal directions are understood to have been issued to those who arrived in the UK on small boats last month, telling them they will be deported within five days."
The first scheduled deportation flight to France under Keir Starmer's one in, one out deal did not carry Channel crossers after a legal challenge led to the removal of a small group from an Air France service. The flight still departed without those passengers, and the Home Office has booked seats on several flights this week. A government source said deportation flights are expected this week. The skills minister declined to confirm numbers. French officials will accept only a small initial contingent. Formal removal directions were issued to recent small‑boat arrivals, with departures expected within five days. Channel crossings have topped 30,000 this year.
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