{"id":532715,"date":"2026-04-10T07:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=532715"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:52:52","slug":"vilnius-airport-shut-overnight-due-to-smugglers-weather-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/vilnius-airport-shut-overnight-due-to-smugglers-weather-balloons","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius Airport Shut Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Operations at Vilnius Airport were disrupted overnight due to smugglers\u2019 weather balloons.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement by the airport\u2019s press service, traffic was halted at 22:30 on Thursday, April 9. Restrictions remained in place until 5:15 a.m. on April 10. Initially, they were extended until 1:30 a.m., and then until 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The airport warned of flight delays on April 10\u201311.<\/p>\n<p>The previous closure of Vilnius Airport due to smugglers\u2019 balloons occurred on March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operations at Vilnius Airport were disrupted overnight due to smugglers\u2019 weather balloons. According to a statement by the airport\u2019s press service, traffic was halted at 22:30 on Thursday, April 9. Restrictions remained in place until 5:15 a.m. on April 10. Initially, they were extended until 1:30 a.m., and then until 3:30 a.m. The airport warned [&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\/2026\/04\/69d8822c32806.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Vilnius Airport Shut Overnight Due to Smugglers\u2019 Weather Balloons"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532715","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=532715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532715\/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=532715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}