And, on that note, we will be closing the blog for today. At least 18 flights have been disrupted by another round of false bomb threats across Europe, bringing this week’s total to more than 50, amid growing concern about a potentially “coordinated campaign of disruption” (14:15, 16:53). Prague has seen the largest number of alerts, nine (13:14), with issues reported also on flights to and from Brussels (13:26), Paris (12:03), Rome (11:35) and Sofia (12:58). The number of bomb threats represents only a tiny fraction of all flights across Europe, with almost 27,000 flights scheduled today (13:31). Separately, bomb threats were also issued against Bulgarian, Irish, and UK news organisations, disrupting broadcasts and prompting staff evacuations in Ireland (11:22). Further threats were distributed to media organisations this afternoon, but could not be immediately verified as genuine (17:16). Ireland has warned against a “likely … coordinated campaign of disruption,” as it condemned atta
Bomb threats against European flights ‘likely a coordinated campaign of disruption’, Ireland says – as it happened
Irish government issues statement in response to latest bomb threats against European flights after some Irish media organisations received similar threats




