TUI Group, Europe’s largest tour operator, yesterday said it was on track to meet its profit target this year as more European holidaymakers head further west and Britons remain eager to go abroad despite the fall in sterling after the Brexit vote.

Holiday firm Thomas Cook has said that booking volumes and prices for the coming winter were ahead of last year, sending its shares to their highest in nearly two months.

More than two years later than originally planned, Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner took to the skies for its maiden test flight.