{"id":40937,"date":"2026-03-16T08:25:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40937\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T08:25:56","slug":"lithuanias-vilnius-airport-reopen-after-airspace-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/40937\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Vilnius airport reopen after airspace disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/vilnius-airport-halts-flights-after-balloon-alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vilnius airport<\/a> resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on Saturday, the latest in a series of interruptions of the Baltic nation&#8217;s air traffic in recent months,<a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> News.Az<\/a> reports, citing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Air traffic restarted at 1731 GMT, the airport said.<\/p>\n<p>The airport, located some 30 km (19 miles) from Belarus, has been closed more than 10 times since early October over similar incidents, and was last closed on December 3.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania says\u00a0balloons are sent by smugglers transporting cigarettes from Belarus, but also blames Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, for not stopping what it calls a form of &#8220;hybrid attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lithuania&#8217;s Vilnius airport resumed operations after balloons had forced it to close its airspace earlier, it said on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[93],"tags":[4263,4265,1410,23144,171,170],"class_list":["post-40937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vilnius","tag-airspace","tag-balloons","tag-belarus","tag-interruptions","tag-lithuania","tag-vilnius"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116237905614011986","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937","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=40937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}