{"id":159830,"date":"2026-02-11T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:40:07","slug":"faa-grounds-all-flights-into-and-out-of-el-paso-until-late-on-feb-20-for-special-security-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159830\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA grounds all flights into and out of El Paso until late on Feb. 20 &#8220;for special security reasons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration says it has halted all flights into and out of El Paso until very late on Feb. 20 for what it calls &#8220;special security reasons.&#8221; There was no indication of what those reasons are.<\/p>\n<p>El Paso International Airport issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUm9yAPFsCf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advisory on social media<\/a> saying, &#8220;All flights to and from El Paso are grounded, including commercial, cargo and general aviation. The FAA has issued a flight restriction halting all flights to and from El Paso effective from February 10 at 11:30 PM (MST) to February 20 at 11:30PM (MST). Travelers should contact their airlines to get most up-to-date flight status information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airport said in another statement that the FAA move was made &#8220;on short notice&#8221; and also was also in effect for &#8220;our neighboring community, Santa Teresa, NM.<\/p>\n<p>It added that, &#8220;Airport staff has reached out to the FAA, and we are pending additional guidance. In the meanwhile, commercial airlines operating out of El Paso are being informed of the restriction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The airport is adjacent to Biggs Army Airfield and is across the border from Juarez, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News has reached out to the FAA and the El Paso airport for more information.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Aviation Administration says it has halted all flights into and out of El Paso until very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,504],"class_list":["post-159830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-federal-aviation-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159830","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=159830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}