{"id":498156,"date":"2025-11-24T08:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=498156"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T06:44:18","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-twice-due-to-smuggling-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-twice-due-to-smuggling-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Twice Due to Smuggling Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Vilnius Airport was closed twice from Sunday to Monday because of smugglers\u2019 balloons.<\/p>\n<p>The airport of the Lithuanian capital first announced a pause in operations at 18:55 on Sunday. The decision to restrict movement in the airspace \u201cwas made on the basis of navigational signs characteristic of balloons.\u201d The airport reopened at 00:25 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>However, less than an hour later, the airport was closed again. The pause in operations lasted from 01:40 to 03:25 on Monday, 24 November.<\/p>\n<p>Five flights were cancelled, while others were moved to the morning or daytime, or diverted to nearby airports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilnius Airport was closed twice from Sunday to Monday because of smugglers\u2019 balloons. The airport of the Lithuanian capital first announced a pause in operations at 18:55 on Sunday. The decision to restrict movement in the airspace \u201cwas made on the basis of navigational signs characteristic of balloons.\u201d The airport reopened at 00:25 on Monday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6923fec7c21f0.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Twice Due to Smuggling Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}