{"id":648570,"date":"2026-06-20T07:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648570\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T07:42:08","slug":"edinburgh-airport-reopens-after-security-alert-but-passengers-warned-of-knock-on-effect-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/648570\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh airport reopens after security alert but passengers warned of \u2018knock on\u2019 effect | Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Edinburgh airport reopened on Saturday morning after parts of the terminal building were evacuated on Friday night because of a security alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An explosive ordnance disposal team was sent to the airport to investigate what Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/scotland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a> described as a \u201cpotentially suspicious package\u201d discovered at about 6.50pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">An evacuation was ordered and a police cordon was set up, with roads closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Passengers faced disruption as result of the operation and the airport warned that schedules would continue to be affected on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In a statement at about 3am on Saturday, the airport confirmed it had reopened and would work to restore normal services as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cFollowing investigations by specialist teams, the airport has now reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThis incident will have knock-on impacts throughout today and staff are working hard to address these and support passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cOperational teams are continuing to work to restore normal services as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPlease check with your airline for the latest information on your flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The statement did not provide an update about the examination of the suspicious package.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh airport reopened on Saturday morning after parts of the terminal building were evacuated on Friday night because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-648570","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}