Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continues
A fresh wave of bomb threats has disrupted air traffic across Europe but the affected planes landed safely and searches revealed no explosive devices.
The latest alerts affected at least 18 flights to or from Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Italy, Hungary, Cyprus, Romania, the UK and Portugal. Danish police investigated a threat against Copenhagen airport but the airport said it was operating normally.
The warnings followed separate threats on Tuesday and Thursday that forced at least 35 flights to be diverted or searched, raising questions over an apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos for travellers.
Your guess is as good as mine, but you’d look like a realllll douche if you were in charge, disregarded a bomb threat, and then someone blew up. I think that’d play a big factor in it.
It may also simply be codified in their policies to treat them all as real threats to avoid any guesswork or considerations. I’m not sure how prevalent these fake calls were when the rules were initially setup, but it’s clearly being abused now and their policies should be rexamined if that’s the case.