To be utterly fed up! Gatwick drones Ruined my trip!!

[Redandblue11]

Posting here for traffic, I need to vent !!!
Was due to meet my family and the s* drones have ruined it!!
I only see them very occasionally as we live very far (long haul).
How on earth they are still at large?

I'm surprised there hasn't been an angry crowd with pitchforks go along to sort it out themselves.

Redandblue - presumably you are coming to Gatwick to see your family in UK rather than other way round?
I am so sorry. This has ruined the Christmas of so many people - what sort of weirdos do something like this?
Is there any way you can find a flight to another airport in UK?

Heathrow is the best.

I hope when/ if they find the culprits the consequences are significant. I'm really sorry about your trip and for all the other people impacted by these people.

DD is stranded...is running out of needles for her insulin if she is there much longer..stress is effecting her levels..

It's horrible ... thousands of family holidays ruined.

It is such a shame for the people like you who have had their travel plans ruined over Christmas. I hope when they catch them, they lock of the perpetrators for as long as possible. I had my holiday cancelled with the Icelandic volcano. It is all a bit shit really but I can see why they have needed to shut down the airport.

DH reckons it’s Greenpeace

@Feckitall, your poor DD. Where is she stranded?

gotta be terrorists

and probally operated over the internet. wondering if Heathrow is going to be next

I was due to fly from Gatwick abroad as flight was cancelled we stopped and tried our luck at Heathrow... only tickets left were for Saturday were £6K to where we need to go ... so we are spending here and not with my parents and godmother who is very ill ...

Won’t the battery of the drone run out soon?

Our flight is on Sunday so there is still some hope but I am feeling very upset about the whole situation. I only see my family for Christmas every other year and have looked forward to this for months so knowing other peoples Christmas is now ruined really gets to me.

Won’t the battery of the drone run out soon?

You never heard of spares?

I dont understand why they can't just shoot the fucker down?

A) might be loaded with explosives
B) might be loaded with chemical weapons
C) bullets flying around populated area not usually a great idea
D) debris could cause damage to planes that then causes them to fall out of the sky.

Doesn’t take a genius to work that lot out.

Sorry about your visit :-( Hopefully they can come a little later/you can go a little later...

@AngeloMysterioso - I very much doubt it's Greenpeace. Any action they do the point is they say who they are and why they are doing it so this is very much unlike them.

*Won’t the battery of the drone run out soon?

You never heard of spares?*

I’m embarrassed by my comment, literall cringing. Just read up a little bit, I had in mind some teens messing about, but clearly it’s much worse

I want them to use eagles to pluck them out of the sky.

Fair enough, but what are they going to do if they can't find the source? Just wait until the person gets bored?

@feckitall can people help if you say where your daughter is?

I suspect they want to get it whole so they can see if there are any forensics on it.

There's another type of drone that can go out with a net and catches the first one as it goes past. It was on TV this evening.

It's shocking - no way should a drone be able to cause this much chaos (& heartache) for people.

something on twitter from cabin crew, they say multiple drones and its a protest group

not sure how they know that