Fresh bomb threats disrupt European flights after earlier hoaxes

A dozen European flights received bomb threats on Thursday, days after several airplanes were similarly targeted. Business Insider reported that, since Tuesday, as many as 20 flights in Europe have faced bomb hoaxes.

No people have been reported injured, and no explosives have been reported found on any of the planes. Airlines and authorities still treated the threats seriously and activated security procedures.

Aer Lingus Flight 402, traveling from Dublin to Rome, U-turned while flying over Paris and landed at the French military base Évreux after a threat. The airline said the Airbus A320 diverted “as a security precaution” and landed safely.

A Wizz Air flight from Milan to Warsaw diverted to Vienna after what the airline described as “a bomb threat received during the flight.” Bulgarian media also reported three Ryanair flights landing in Bulgaria after threats, while LOT Polish Airlines Flight 235 and two Finnair flights from Helsinki were also targeted.

Czech Police said on X that it received bomb threats about four aircraft heading to Prague. Police assessed the threats as low relevance but said they did not underestimate them and activated security protocols.

LOT Polish Airlines said its crew conducted an onboard security check and found no suspicious items, a finding confirmed by a later inspection after landing in Brussels. A Finnair spokesperson told Business Insider that “threats are almost always unfounded.”

The latest threats followed Tuesday incidents in which at least seven flights were targeted. The UK government called those earlier incidents “malicious hoax threats.”

A European Commission spokesperson told Business Insider it was “closely monitoring the situation,” but said it was too early to draw conclusions on whether the reported incidents are linked. For travelers, the key takeaway is that bomb-threat reports can trigger diversions, inspections, and delays even when later found to be hoaxes.