A flight operated by Spanish airline Vueling was delayed in Athens Thursday after the airport received a hoax warning that a bomb was on board, the low-cost carrier said.

The Barcelona-bound plane was rescheduled to take off at 2100 GMT, nearly eight hours after Athens airport authorities halted take-off procedures for the flight after realising they had a written bomb warning, Vueling said in a statement.

The hoax followed an incident on a Vueling flight on Wednesday when eight people were injured during an emergency evacuation from an aircraft after one of its engines caught fire on the ground in Paris.