Video. 'Weaponising disruption.' Travel expert on European hoax bomb threats
Euronews · Guillaume Goodey ·
Video. "Nobody really has a chance of getting a bomb onboard... you've got to remember how safe European airspace is." Eoghan Corry, editor of Travel Extra, speaks to Euronews on the recent hoax bomb threats affecting multiple European airlines on Tuesday.
"Nobody really has a chance of getting a bomb onboard... you've got to remember how safe European airspace is."
Eoghan Corry, editor of Travel Extra, speaks to Euronews on the recent hoax bomb threats affecting multiple European airlines on Tuesday.
Corry talks about the varying different responses from each airport and airline to the bomb threats, using a "separate set of protocols," although they "aren't that scattered" in terms of procedures. However, he claims that these attacks were "designed to disrupt" rather than likely bomb threats, with more disruption occurring from the asymmetric reactions of different airports to the "blanket set of threats, weaponising disruption."
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