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Why have more than 30 European flights been hit by bomb threats this week?

With flights disrupted, how concerned should you be about your travel plans?

Written by
Jakub Krupa
Published by
The Guardian
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71 words · 1 min
Why have more than 30 European flights been hit by bomb threats this week?

With flights disrupted, how concerned should you be about your travel plans?

More than 30 planes have been subjected to security alerts or diversions this week, with at least 25 more bomb threats on Thursday disrupting civil aviation across Europe.

What do we know so far, and how concerned should you be about your travel plans?

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A Wizz Air aircraft on the tarmac at Milan Malpensa airport with the control tower behind it.
Milan Malpensa airport received an anonymous email in Italian claiming explosive devices were on flights from Thessaloniki and Porto, the Ansa news agency reported. Claudia Greco/Reuters

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This story was reported by Jakub Krupa and first published by The Guardian on 5 Nov 2026. HUE Legacy Ventures did not write it.

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