{"id":648863,"date":"2025-10-06T09:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648863"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:24:03","slug":"lithuanias-vilnius-airport-suspends-traffic-over-possible-balloons-in-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/lithuanias-vilnius-airport-suspends-traffic-over-possible-balloons-in-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Vilnius Airport suspends traffic over possible balloons in airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport due to balloons possibly flying in its airspace, and flights have been diverted to neighbouring countries, the airport&#8217;s operator said late on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was made due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport,&#8221; the operator said in a statement on its Facebook page. &#8220;As a result of this incident, flights have been affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport due to balloons possibly flying in its airspace, and flights have been diverted to neighbouring countries, the airport&#8217;s operator said late on Saturday. European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich. &#8220;The decision was made due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport,&#8221; the operator said in a statement on its Facebook page. &#8220;As a result of this incident, flights have been affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}