Travel disruption across Europe after latest string of bomb threats

It comes following a number of threats earlier this week

The incidents have caused travel disruption in a number of airports across Europe, with more than 10 flights being affected by bomb threats.

It comes following reports this morning of an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome having to divert to a French air base with a number of other flights also reporting bomb alerts.

An Aer Lingus A320. Image: Adobe Stock.

The aircraft started squawking 7700, the internationally recognised sign for an emergency, just south of Paris, before it turned back on itself and peformed a number of loops.

This was followed by reports of four flights to Prague in the Czech Republic calling in bomb threats while a number of flights to Bulgaria and Italy were also affected.

This caused disruption at a number of airports having to close or make special exceptions for landing aircraft.

This comes just days after a series of other bomb threats called in across Europe on Tuesday.

At least four Ryanair flights were affected as well as flights of SAS Lot and Wizz Air.

List of flights reporting bomb threats:

• Aegean Thessaloniki to Milan,landed in Milan
• Ryanair Porto to Milan, landed in Milan
• Aer Lingus Dublin to Rome, diverted to Evreux airbase in France
• Finnair Helsinki to Rome, landed in Rome
• Wizz Air Milan to Bucharest, landed in Bucharest
• Wizz Air Milan to Warsaw, diverted to Vienna
• LOT Warsaw to Brussels, landed in Brussels
• Ryanair Copenhagen to Sofia, landed in Sofia
• Ryanair to Madrid to Sofia, landed in Sofia
• Ryanair London to Sofia, diverted to Plovdiv