{"id":474610,"date":"2026-06-13T00:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474610\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T00:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T00:57:12","slug":"possible-flow-on-disruptions-after-fire-at-wellington-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/474610\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible flow-on disruptions after fire at Wellington Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passengers are being warned of possible “flow-on disruptions” after a fire broke out in a terminal at Wellington Airport last night. <\/p>\n

In a statement just before midnight yesterday, Wellington Airport said the fire had been put out after flights were temporarily diverted<\/a>. They said international flights were due to arrive on time. <\/p>\n

There were no reports of injuries. <\/p>\n

The airport’s southwest pier and main terminal building were evacuated at around 7.15pm last night after the fire set off smoke alarms.<\/p>\n

\"Passengers<\/p>\n

Passengers evacuate after a fire at Wellington Airport. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Multiple crews from FENZ and the Airport Fire Service responded to the fire. <\/p>\n

“FENZ will be investigating the cause of the fire.” <\/p>\n

The airport said it will be “open as usual” today, but warned, “there may be some flow-on disruptions to flights so passengers are advised to check directly with their airlines”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passengers are being warned of possible “flow-on disruptions” after a fire broke out in a terminal at Wellington…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,52],"class_list":["post-474610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}