Why a wave of bomb threats is proving so difficult for Europe's aviation authorities to contain

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A spate of bomb threats against passenger flights has forced diversions, emergency landings and military escorts across European airspace this week, stoking fear among passengers and heaping pressure on airlines. Authorities have described the more than two dozen threats as malicious hoaxes, and no actual attacks have been carried out. But the incidents have highlighted the huge impact that even false claims can have on a tightly scheduled aviation network. "This is really quite exceptional, I've never seen this before in my whole career," Wilfried Covent, head of security firm Covent Consulting with a specialization in aviation, told CNBC by phone.