London’s Gatwick Airport Reopens After Drone Saboteur Sows Chaos

Passengers hurry through the South Terminal building at Gatwick Airport, after the airport reopened to flights following its forced closure because of drone activity, in Gatwick, Britain, Dec. 21, 2018. Toby Melville/Reuters
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LONDON—London’s Gatwick Airport reopened on Dec. 21, after a saboteur wrought 36 hours of travel chaos for over a hundred thousand Christmas travelers by using a drone to play cat-and-mouse with police snipers and the army.

After the biggest disruption at Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, since a volcanic ash cloud in 2010, Gatwick said 700 planes were due to take off on Friday, although there would still be delays and cancellations.