{"id":525670,"date":"2026-03-15T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T07:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=525670"},"modified":"2026-03-15T14:31:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T11:31:29","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-again-due-to-weather-balloons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-again-due-to-weather-balloons-2","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Due to Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Airspace over Vilnius Airport was closed from 21:46 to 23:35 after navigation markers resembling weather balloons used for smuggling were detected. After 22:00, flights were resumed, Delfi reports.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first such incident \u2014 in November and December 2025 Vilnius Airport was repeatedly closed for the same reason. At the end of 2025, the Lithuanian government declared a nationwide state of emergency because of airborne smuggling, and in October the border with Belarus was closed.<\/p>\n<p>Up-to-date information on schedule changes is available on the website vilnius-airport.lt, and airlines also notify passengers directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airspace over Vilnius Airport was closed from 21:46 to 23:35 after navigation markers resembling weather balloons used for smuggling were detected. After 22:00, flights were resumed, Delfi reports. This is not the first such incident \u2014 in November and December 2025 Vilnius Airport was repeatedly closed for the same reason. At the end of 2025, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":525669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b698970e5a8.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Again Due to Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143094],"tags":[143118,143120],"class_list":["post-525670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-incident","tag-belarus","tag-meteozondy"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525670","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=525670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}