{"id":159900,"date":"2026-02-11T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159900\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:53:07","slug":"faa-grounds-all-flights-in-and-around-el-paso-for-10-days-citing-special-security-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/159900\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA grounds all flights in and around El Paso for 10 days, citing &#8216;special security reasons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 19 flights between North Texas and El Paso were impacted on Wednesday, the day the closure was announced.<\/p>\n<p>EL PASO, Texas \u2014 The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded all flights to and from El Paso International Airport for at least 10 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The temporary flight restrictions went into effect Feb. 10 and are expected to last through Feb. 20. The FAA cited &#8220;special security reasons&#8221; for the restriction, <a href=\"https:\/\/tfr.faa.gov\/tfr3\/?page=detail_6_2233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a notice issued by the agency.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The restriction includes the airspace in and around the airport, but it does not apply to Mexican airspace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No details were provided as to the nature of the security concern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Paso International Airport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ElPasoInternationalAirport\/posts\/pfbid02mXzEJuQrMoKpR8kq5F7R1q27G1uqH3KBHbe2aMDQbZVF7QkTCCqzeZah4AZbyVdxl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a travel advisory on its social media pages<\/a> shortly after midnight Mountain time, stating that all commercial, cargo and general aviation flights have been grounded.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Travelers should contact their airlines to get most up-to-date flight status information,&#8221; the advisory stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Several military bases are located near the airport, including the White Sands Missile Range, Holloman Air Force Base, Fort Bliss and Fort Bliss-McGregor Range.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing and may be updated as information becomes available.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 19 flights between North Texas and El Paso were impacted on Wednesday, the day the closure was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-159900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159900","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=159900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}