Overview

• Operations were restricted from 9:30 pm Friday and then cancelled, with 23 inbound flights diverted, 12 arrivals cancelled, and 46 departures cancelled or pushed into Saturday, affecting about 6,500 passengers.
• The airport said normal service is expected to resume at 5:00 am Saturday, after an earlier shutdown late Thursday stranded nearly 3,000 passengers and forced 17 cancellations and 15 diversions.
• A police spokesman reported two simultaneous confirmed sightings just before 11 pm around the north and south runways; helicopters were deployed but no drones were recovered or identified.
• German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt called the situation a wake‑up call as Berlin advances funding for drone defenses and prepares legal changes to allow the army to shoot down threatening drones.
• European officials are treating the disruptions as a cross‑border security challenge, backing a coordinated ‘drone wall’ while some leaders suggest possible Russian involvement that Moscow denies.