Bomb hoaxes hit 11 more Europe flights: what Kuwait flyers should know

If you’ve got a flight booked to Europe this month, or a connection through an airport like London, Brussels or Rome, you’ll want to read this before you pack.

A fresh round of hoax bomb threats hit flights in and out of Prague and Sofia on Friday, the latest in a string of false alarms that have disrupted European air travel all week. Nobody was hurt, and no device has been found, but airports and police across the continent have had to respond to every single threat as if it were real.

This comes in a week where dozens of commercial flights have already been affected by similar hoaxes, with some planes rerouted mid-air and others escorted by fighter jets. If you’ve been following our coverage of travel chaos risk as Gulf tensions rise, this is a separate but equally disruptive pattern hitting routes many Kuwait residents use to reach Europe.

What exactly happened in Prague and Sofia?

Prague airport spokeswoman Denisa Hejtmankova told news agency AFP that Friday’s threats covered incoming flights from Denmark, Great Britain and two flights from Spain. On the outbound side, flights to the Netherlands, Cyprus, Romania, Italy and Great Britain were named.

Neither the airport nor Czech police gave further details on which specific flights or airlines were involved. Airport spokesman Jiri Hannich said operations at Prague remained