How airlines and airports respond to a bomb threat depends on the seriousness of the threat and if its on the ground or in the air.

Even as the intelligence and cyber security agencies are grappling to ascertain the origin and people or organisation behind the recent repeated hoax bomb threats to airlines in India and their actual intent,

A joint team of cyber, aviation security, and intelligence agencies have suspended several social media accounts issuing fake bomb threats to Indian airlines. Over a dozen carriers have been affected since the start of the week,

Air India passengers arriving in New York from Mumbai on Saturday were delayed by a hoax bomb threat, adding to a string of false alarms the carrier has received this month.

Over 70 flights operated by Indian airlines, including Air India, IndiGo, Akasa Air, and Vistara received bomb threats this week

Ten hoax bomb threats were received by multiple airlines on Saturday. Five hoax bomb threats were received by Spice jet. Five more were received by Air Asi..

A plane with 147 people on board made an emergency landing in Germany over a bomb threat sent via X, police have said. The Indian carrier Vistara was already targeted in September by a bomb threat in a plane toilet.

Around 10 social media handles, the majority of them on X, have been suspended or blocked since Monday when these hoax bomb started being sent to virtually all the Indian airliners for both their domestic and international route operations.