{"id":499355,"date":"2025-11-30T19:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=499355"},"modified":"2025-11-30T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T16:46:06","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-again-due-to-hot-air-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-again-due-to-hot-air-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Due to Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>On 30 November 2025 at 18:09 (GMT+2), temporary airspace restrictions were introduced over Vilnius Airport, the airport\u2019s press service reported.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions will remain in place until 21:00 (GMT+2).<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;According to initial information, the decision to impose airspace restrictions was influenced by navigation signatures characteristic of balloons moving in the direction of Vilnius Airport,&#8221;<\/i> the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Meteorological balloons are used by smugglers to transport cigarettes from the territory of Belarus to Lithuania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 November 2025 at 18:09 (GMT+2), temporary airspace restrictions were introduced over Vilnius Airport, the airport\u2019s press service reported. The restrictions will remain in place until 21:00 (GMT+2). &#8220;According to initial information, the decision to impose airspace restrictions was influenced by navigation signatures characteristic of balloons moving in the direction of Vilnius Airport,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":497700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/692c74d1eb972.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Due to Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499355","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=499355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}