27 flights, 3 hotels get bomb threats

At least 27 flights of Indian carriers received bomb threats on Friday with the over 10-day-old crisis showing no signs of abating. Besides, threats were issued to three hotels and to the airport in Tirupati.

Seven flights each of IndiGo , Vistara , and SpiceJet , and six of Air India were among those that received threats till Friday evening. The list included IndiGo's Udaipur-Delhi, Delhi-Istanbul, Jeddah-Mumbai, Mumbai-Istanbul, Hyderabad-Chandigarh, Pune-Jodhpur, and Kozhikode-Dammam flights.

Aircraft getting threats are taken to isolation bays for thorough checks, leading to delays.

Over 275 flights operated by Indian carriers have received such threats, mostly through social media, in the past 12 days ahead of the Diwali travel rush. This included a record 80 flights on Thursday.