New Bomb Threats Hit European Flights and Broadcasters

New bomb threats on Friday, Nov. 6, 2026, caused more flights to be diverted across Europe and widened to target media organisations, according to Al Jazeera.

The threats follow a week of hoax alerts. About half a dozen flights were disrupted on Tuesday, Nov. 3, and more than two dozen on Thursday, Nov. 5. Across the week, at least 32 flights were disrupted in total, according to The Guardian.

The broadcasting threats reached several countries. British broadcaster Sky said it was one of a number of newsrooms that received a bomb threat on Nov. 6. Bulgaria's Nova TV and Ireland's RTÉ received emailed threats from a purported sender named "Mikhail Andropov," with a message headlined "Message to the West."

At RTÉ, the Irish public broadcaster, staff in Dublin were briefly evacuated on Friday morning after a bomb threat email arrived, including radio and television presenters. David McCullagh, a presenter on RTÉ Radio One, said the threat warned that a bomb would explode within 45 minutes. The Irish government said hoax bomb claims were also sent to Virgin Media, Newstalk radio and The Irish Independent newspaper.

Air traffic was affected in several countries on Friday. Hungarian Defence Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi said jets escorted airliners flying from Brussels to Sofia and from Prague to Bucharest and Cyprus through Hungarian airspace because of the threats. He also said NATO had ordered an air patrol near the Hungarian-Romanian border, according to the same account.

Czech police registered bomb threats to nine flights departing from or arriving in Prague. France reported four new threats to aircraft flying over French territory and said all of them landed safely. Danish police said the threats were directed at traffic at Copenhagen airport but that there appeared to be no danger to passengers. Police in Venice said a Wizz Air flight from Prague to Rome was diverted to Venice after a bomb alert.

Security inspections of the aircraft found no explosives, according to Al Jazeera. Overall, at least a dozen flights in Europe were diverted or landed under military escort in connection with the bomb or security threats, according to Deutsche Welle.