Over 110 000 passengers were on Thursday hit by flyplasstengingen, while 657 of 760 flights were set.
Now, the airport is opened again, in the first instance for the limited traffic.
– the Airport is open again and most flygningene is expected to go as planned, wrote the airline British Airways to a customer on Twitter Friday morning.
Gatwick announces that a limited number of flights will begin to walk normally again within the next hours.
All passengers are requested to check the status with the airline before they set course towards the airport.
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the Police have sent both the marksmen and helicopters to hunt down drones. Thursday was also the soldiers inserted, according to the BBC, but on Thursday night it was still not considered safe to resume traffic.
QUEUE: According to The Guardian have the queue for the information desk has been around 270 metres long. Photo: Victoria Jones / PA Photos / NTB Scanpix Show more the Police: – deliberately
According to the police is there to talk about the deliberate attempt to prevent air traffic.
– Every time we think we are approaching the droneoperatøren, disappears dronen. When we aim to reopen the runway, is going dronen back, ” says Justin Burtenshaw by Sussex police.
According to police, it is at the same time no one thing that points in the direction of an act of terrorism. It should be larger, professional drones that have been used.
Flyplassledelsen at Gatwick ba on Thursday evening the passengers not to go to the airport. More cancellations are expected on Friday.
” We are extremely disappointed that the passenger is affected, especially at this time of the year. Our advice remains that people should not go to the airport and that they should check with the airline, enter the airport on Twitter on Thursday.
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Gatwick closed the first on Wednesday night, but by 3.30 time on the night of Thursday was the one runway opened again. A new droneobservasjon led, however, to the fact that it was closed again just a quarter of an hour later, and since it has been closed.
At 11 am on Thursday, 14 hours after the first observation, it was again seen a drone in the area.
Closure has led to major problems in the juletrafikken to and from the british capital. Some planes have been sent to Heathrow, west of London, while others have been forced to land in Manchester, Birmingham and other cities. Some flights have been redirected to the France and the Netherlands.
the Problems at Gatwick has also affected air traffic in the united Kingdom and Europe. Norwegian is one of the largest players on Gatwick, and the closure of the airport also affect Norwegian passengers.
DRONES: This politihelikopteret flying low around the runway, on the lookout for the drones. Photo: Grant Falvey / lNP / Shutterstock / NTB Scanpix Show more – Idiots
the Newspaper The Guardian has talked with several passengers who have been stranded at the airport for over a day. A student tells us that he has been waiting since Wednesday night. He came on board the plane, but was sitting for hours before the passengers had to back out.
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Carl and Lisa McCluskey was supposed to fly to Egypt with her daughters and Lisa’s parents. Now, they have been asked to check in at 06 Friday. But just before at 22: 30 hours Norwegian time notify The Independent that it may be the case that Gatwick will be closed until Saturday.
There are certainly mindless idiots, they know what they are doing to hundreds of thousands of people, ” says Carl McCluskey to The Independent.
the Hotels in the vicinity of the airport are fully booked, which means that many of the passengers are going to spend the night in the terminal, writes the newspaper.
STRANDED: There are many passengers who are stranded at the airport. Photo: Victoria Jones / Pa Photos / NTB Scanpix Show more – Feel with the passengers
A spokesperson for Britain’s prime minister Theresa May calls droneflygingen “irresponsible and completely unacceptable”.
We feel all of the passengers who are exposed to so much interference.
It is usually døgndrift on storflyplassen south of London, including around 20 nattflyginger. The company that runs the airport, sorry to the traveller, but says safety must come first.
The last few years there have been several messages about that drones have been close by hitting the liner.
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