{"id":648918,"date":"2025-10-06T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=648918"},"modified":"2025-10-06T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T06:40:00","slug":"balloons-trigger-disruption-lithuanias-vilnius-airport-suspends-air-traffic-operations-flights-diverted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/balloons-trigger-disruption-lithuanias-vilnius-airport-suspends-air-traffic-operations-flights-diverted\/","title":{"rendered":"Balloons trigger disruption: Lithuania\u2019s Vilnius airport suspends air traffic operations; flights diverted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport after balloons were reportedly spotted in its airspace, prompting flights to be redirected to neighboring countries, the airport operator said late Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision was made due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport,&#8221; the operator said through a statement on Facebook. &#8220;As a result of this incident, flights have been affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania has suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport after balloons were reportedly spotted in its airspace, prompting flights to be redirected to neighboring countries, the airport operator said late Saturday. &#8220;The decision was made due to a possible series of balloons heading toward Vilnius Airport,&#8221; the operator said through a statement on Facebook. &#8220;As a result of this incident, flights have been affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648918","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}