{"id":500585,"date":"2026-06-15T10:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:56:19","slug":"major-airport-closed-due-to-ongoing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/500585\/","title":{"rendered":"Major airport closed due to “ongoing incident”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passengers hoping to fly from Inverness Airport have been told to contact their airlines for further information<\/p>\n

Simon Hamalienko Publishing Lead and Adam Care<\/p>\n

15:34, 14 Jun 2026Updated 17:34, 14 Jun 2026<\/p>\n

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Inverness Airport warned passengers to contact their airline for flight updates(Image: Inverness Airport)<\/p>\n

An airport has suddenly closed due to an “ongoing incident”, travelers have been warned.<\/p>\n

Scotland’s Inverness Airport has been forced to shut this afternoon (June 14), due to an currently unknown situation.<\/p>\n

The airport said it will remain closed until 4pm but did warn to keep an eye out for updates.<\/p>\n

The message also urged passengers to contact their airline for further details on flights.<\/p>\n

In a message on X posted at around 1:51pm, Inverness Airport wrote: “Inverness Airport is closed until approximately 4pm due to an ongoing incident, reports the Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We advise passengers to contact their airline for the latest flight updates before travelling.”<\/p>\n

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Inverness Airport has been closed due to an ‘incident’ (file)(Image: GettyImages)<\/p>\n

The same message was also published on X by Highlands & Islands Airports, which manages Inverness Airport.<\/p>\n

Despite the airport currently being due to reopen at 4pm, disruption for passengers will continue with the latest showing delays for the majority of flights due to takeoff and land today.<\/p>\n

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Flight times on the airports website currently have all arrival flights delayed from 2pm to 5:15pm. The flight from Luton to the airport at 5:30pm is currently on time.<\/p>\n

However, departures at the airport are seeing delays from now until 5:55pm. The only flight currently on time is the EasyJet flight to Luton at 6:25pm.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Inverness Airport has said there is no further information to share regarding the incident at this moment in time.<\/p>\n

Update: The airport has now reopened, with flights now operating again.<\/p>\n

A post on the airport’s Facebook page said: “Inverness Airport is now open again after the earlier incident and flights are operating.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to passengers for their patience while the incident was ongoing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers hoping to fly from Inverness Airport have been told to contact their airlines for further information Simon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,9036,2521],"class_list":["post-500585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}