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		</div><p>Passengers breathed a sigh of relief at Gatwick Airport as flights resumed after a rogue drone caused travel “chaos” over three days.</p>
<p>But long queues and some knock-on delays remained at the airport on Saturday as airlines worked to clear a backlog of flights.</p>
<p><em>“Many people will be due to fly today and there will be longer delays perhaps,</em>” a Gatwick spokesman said.</p>
<p><em>“But broadly things are going in the right direction. By the end of the weekend, things should be back to normal.”</em></p>
<p>On Saturday, the queue for check-ins stretched the length of the departures hall – while a heavy stream of passengers poured through the arrivals gates as a full schedule of flights operated.</p>
<p>In the departures line was the Shorrock family, from Oxford, who were flying to Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps for a skiing trip.</p>
<p>Vivienne Shorrock was “relieved” to have avoided the drone disruption as she was worried the family’s non-refundable holiday would go to waste.</p>
<p><em>“But then we thought well it’s a middle class problem isn’t it. Oh no, we can’t go on a skiing holiday,”</em> she said.</p>
<p><em>“In perspective some people have suffered real losses by not getting where they want to go to be with family.”</em></p>
<p>David Shorrock joked the drone drama was a “nice distraction from Brexit” before offering a novel solution to the problem.</p>
<p><em>“They should’ve got some farmers here. They would’ve soon sorted it out,”</em> he said.</p>
<p><em>“You get 100 young farmers here with a flagon of cider. Free cider for anyone who shoots the drone.”</em></p>
<p>At the height of the disruption, many passengers had to spend the night at the airport, where staff provided free water, blankets and food.</p>
<p><em>“We made sure the heating was on all night in the terminals, and made sure the shops were all open 24 hours,”</em> a spokesman said.</p>
<p>Two people were arrested in connection with the “criminal use of drones”, police said in the early hours of Saturday.</p>
<p>About 1,000 flights and 140,000 passengers were disrupted by the persistent drone activity between Wednesday and Friday.</p>
<p>A full schedule of more than 750 services was planned on Saturday at the world’s second-busiest single-runway airport.</p>
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