{"id":30826,"date":"2026-03-02T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/30826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:21:32","slug":"some-flight-delays-at-vilnius-airport-after-recent-closure-due-to-meteo-balloons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/30826\/","title":{"rendered":"Some flight delays at Vilnius Airport after recent closure due to meteo balloons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Isolated delays at Vilnius Airport occur due to disrupted rotations of crews and aircraft. At night, airspace over the airport was closed and this affected the schedules,&#8221; representative of Lithuanian Airports Rasa Petrauskait\u0117 told the news agency ELTA on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, delays affect arrivals and departures, including flights to and from T\u00fcrkiye and Germany. On Thursday evening, several flights had to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul, which had to take off Thursday evening, departed at 1 p.m. Friday instead. Mavi Gok Airlines flight to Antalya had to depart at 3 p.m. Friday but was delayed until 4 p.m. A Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt was also late to depart.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, Vilnius Airport had to close at 8:05 p.m. Thursday due to contraband-laden meteo balloons from Belarus. Its airspace was reopened at 10:43 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Vilnius Airport had to close four times, while Kaunas Airport suspended flights once.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the Belarusian hybrid attack, the Lithuanian Government on 29 October announced that two remaining border checkpoints with Belarus would be closed for a month, until 30 November. \u0160al\u010dininkai border checkpoint is completely closed, whereas there are some exemptions for travellers at Medininkai checkpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Isolated delays at Vilnius Airport occur due to disrupted rotations of crews and aircraft. At night, airspace over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1410,2715,171,170,2743],"class_list":{"0":"post-30826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vilnius","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-flights","10":"tag-lithuania","11":"tag-vilnius","12":"tag-vilnius-airport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}