{"id":499195,"date":"2025-11-29T08:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T05:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499195"},"modified":"2025-11-29T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:29:27","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-smugglers-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-smugglers-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Vilnius Airport was once again out of operation last night because of smugglers\u2019 balloons. It was closed shortly before midnight.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Temporary airspace restrictions were introduced over Vilnius Airport on 28 November from 23:15. According to preliminary information, the decision to impose the restrictions was also influenced by navigation signatures characteristic of balloons moving toward the airport,&#8221;<\/i> the airport said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The airspace closure was extended several times. The airport ultimately resumed operations today at 07:03 (08:03 Minsk time).<\/p>\n<p>Some flights were redirected to other airports, including Kaunas. Other flights were cancelled or rescheduled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vilnius Airport was once again out of operation last night because of smugglers\u2019 balloons. It was closed shortly before midnight. &#8220;Temporary airspace restrictions were introduced over Vilnius Airport on 28 November from 23:15. According to preliminary information, the decision to impose the restrictions was also influenced by navigation signatures characteristic of balloons moving toward the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"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\/692abcfe4525b.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499195","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\/499195","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\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499195\/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=499195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}