Fake bomb alerts have been closing many French airports

[NormanH]

Something to think about if you have travel plans at the moment:  https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2023/10/20/french-government-growing-impatient-over-bomb-alerts-threaten-prison-terms_6190545_7.html

 

[Lehaut]

Here at Nantes the airport has been closed too.  If I remember correctly, when we worked in the MOD in London, the IRA had an "official" code word. When they were bombing us they rang the police with the code word so they knew it was a real threat.  In these French cases such a thing is not possible

This part of the article is a hollow threat "The justice minister said minors' parents could be made to pay for damages, while the interior minister said that student pranksters won't get off"

The delay to the airports/airlines/passengers would be in the millions.

And then there is the potential disruptions to the Olympics to think about.