Opening in Alicante airport is the chain’s first move outside UK
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Wetherspoon’s is to open its first pub outside the UK, serving alcohol from 6am every day to sun-seeking Britons waiting for their plane in the departure lounge at Alicante airport.
The opening in Spain, scheduled for January, will be the first foray on to foreign soil for the pub chain, which said it expects to pursue more footholds on the continent in the coming years.
The expansion into mainland Europe comes nearly a decade after Wetherspoons’ outspoken founder and chair, Tim Martin, celebrated Britain’s vote to leave the EU, a policy he vocally backed.
