Ryanair plane from Fiumicino lands in Lisbon and Prague–Rome flight diverted to Venice, a day after at least 25 hoax alerts across Europe.Fresh bomb threats targeted two flights linked to Rome on Friday 6 November, extending a wave of apparent hoax alerts that has disrupted air travel across Europe this week.A Ryanair flight from Rome to Lisbon landed at Humberto Delgado airport at about 08.00 local time, where a major security operation was launched, according to news agency ANSA. The alert was reportedly received by Portugal’s Public Security Police (PSP) in a phone call. Authorities are assessing the credibility of the threat. Separately, a Wizz Air flight from Prague to Rome, due to land at Fiumicino at 11.00, was diverted to Venice after an anonymous call to the airport’s control tower reported a device on board, Italian media reported. Police began searching the aircraft after it landed. Prague police said they were investigating threats against “several aircraft arriving at and departing from” the Czech capital’s airport, and that security measures had been taken with minimal impact on normal operations.The incidents follow Thursday’s wave of false alarms, which affected at least 25 flights in several European countries, causing diversions, delays, extra checks and, in some cases, the scrambling of military aircraft. Dozens of flights this week, several of them to or from Italy, have been the subject of false alarms.In Rome, a threatening email sent to employees of Aeroporti di Roma and a private aviation logistics company claimed explosives had been placed on flights from Helsinki and Dublin to Italy. Italian air force jets took off to intercept suspect aircraft, but the threat proved unfounded.An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome was rerouted to the Evreux airbase in northern France, escorted by French military jets. Its passengers reached Rome overnight. Photo credit: Toni. M / Shutterstock.com

Fresh bomb threats targeted two flights linked to Rome on Friday 6 November, extending a wave of apparent hoax alerts that has disrupted air travel across Europe this week. A Ryanair flight from Rome to Lisbon landed at Humberto Delgado airport at about 08.00 local time, where a major security operation was launched, according to news agency ANSA. The alert was reportedly received by Portugal’s Public Security Police (PSP) in a phone call. Authorities are assessing the credibility of the threat. Separately, a Wizz Air flight from Prague to Rome, due to land at Fiumicino at 11.00, was diverted to Venice after an anonymous call to the airport’s control tower reported a device on board, Italian media reported. Police began searching the aircraft after it landed. Prague police said they were investigating threats against “several aircraft arriving at and departing from” the Czech capital’s airport, and that security measures had been taken with minimal impact on normal operations.

The incidents follow , which affected at least 25 flights in several European countries, causing diversions, delays, extra checks and, in some cases, the scrambling of military aircraft. Dozens of flights this week, several of them to or from Italy, have been the subject of false alarms.

In Rome, a threatening email sent to employees of Aeroporti di Roma and a private aviation logistics company claimed explosives had been placed on flights from Helsinki and Dublin to Italy. Italian air force jets took off to intercept suspect aircraft, but the threat proved unfounded.

An Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome was rerouted to the Evreux airbase in northern France, escorted by French military jets. Its passengers reached Rome overnight. Photo credit: Toni. M / Shutterstock.com