{"id":159730,"date":"2026-02-11T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:50:08","slug":"faa-grounds-all-flights-in-el-paso-santa-teresa-due-to-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159730\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA grounds all flights in El Paso, Santa Teresa due to security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a temporary flight restriction that halts all flights to and from El Paso and the neighboring Santa Teresa, New Mexico, according to city officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restriction, issued early Wednesday, Feb. 12, prohibits all aircraft operations \u2014 including commercial, cargo and general aviation flights \u2014 from 11:30 p.m. MST on Feb. 10 through 11:30 p.m. MST on Feb. 20.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"New and creative light fixtures have been installed at the El Paso International Airport on Aug. 7, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8fead8e262e6b3de4037caa215ce9706.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New and creative light fixtures have been installed at the El Paso International Airport on Aug. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials at El Paso International Airport said they have contacted the FAA and are awaiting additional guidance. Commercial airlines operating out of El Paso are being notified of the restriction, which city officials said appears to be security-related.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Travelers are encouraged to contact their airlines for the latest information on flight status and rebooking options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The story is developing. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elpasotimes.com\/story\/news\/2026\/02\/11\/el-paso-flights-halted-by-faa-until-feb-20-what-travelers-need-to-know\/88619817007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:El Paso flights halted by FAA until Feb. 20: What travelers need to know;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">El Paso flights halted by FAA until Feb. 20: What travelers need to know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration has issued a temporary flight restriction that halts all flights to and from El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[65604,4606,138,140,1110,139,504,65603],"class_list":{"0":"post-159730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-aircraft-operations","9":"tag-city-officials","10":"tag-el-paso","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-international-airport","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-federal-aviation-administration","15":"tag-temporary-flight-restriction"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}