{"id":529937,"date":"2026-03-31T08:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=529937"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:09:04","slug":"vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-closed-overnight-due-to-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due To Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Operations at Vilnius Airport were disrupted again overnight.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/nuomones\/3\/2883316\/vytautas-bruveris-aizejanti-lietuva-ne-naujo-pakto-uzstaleje-o-vaisiu-meniu\">LRT<\/a> reports, flights at the airport were suspended at 2 a.m. after radar detected objects <em>&#8220;characteristic of weather balloons&#8221;<\/em> that could pose a threat to air traffic. Restrictions were lifted at 3:12 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>During the restrictions, a flight from Copenhagen carrying 87 passengers was diverted. As a result, the morning flight to the Danish capital was cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>The airport&#8217;s operations were previously disrupted on March 27. Since the beginning of the year, it has been temporarily closed six times because of smugglers&#8217; weather balloons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations at Vilnius Airport were disrupted again overnight. As LRT reports, flights at the airport were suspended at 2 a.m. after radar detected objects &#8220;characteristic of weather balloons&#8221; that could pose a threat to air traffic. Restrictions were lifted at 3:12 a.m. During the restrictions, a flight from Copenhagen carrying 87 passengers was diverted. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":492411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69cb81241cb30.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Closed Overnight Due To Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143120],"class_list":["post-529937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-meteozondy"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529937","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=529937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}