Explosives Alerts Disrupt Flights in Prague and Lisbon

At least eight flights departing from or arriving in Prague on Friday were subjected to bomb threats, according to the capital’s airport, in the latest episode of a series of similar threats that have disrupted air traffic across Europe in recent days. A spokesperson for the airport said the threats affected flights arriving from Denmark, Spain, and the United Kingdom, while departing flights included aircraft bound for the Netherlands, Cyprus, Romania, Italy, and the United Kingdom. In a separate incident, a Ryanair flight scheduled to depart from Lisbon for Rome on Friday morning received a bomb threat, which was later determined to be false, according to Portuguese police. These incidents come amid a wave of false alarms that have disrupted European air travel, with nearly 20 bomb threats since the beginning of the week forcing authorities to reroute some flights and dispatch fighter jets to escort several civilian aircraft.