{"id":161152,"date":"2026-02-12T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161152\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:59:07","slug":"former-el-paso-city-representative-says-airport-closure-was-the-right-move-wrong-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161152\/","title":{"rendered":"Former El Paso City Representative says airport closure was the right move, wrong timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; The El Paso Airport ground stop and temporary flight restriction only lasted about 7 hours, but the potential impact was massive. <\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 spoke with former El Paso City Representative Brian Kennedy, who said that he agreed with the closure, but thought that 10 days was too strong. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first thing that I would always worry about is how do we make people safe?&#8221; said Kennedy. Kennedy was the District 1 rep for 2 years and said that the FAA and Fort Bliss might not have had time to let city officials know before giving the Notice To All Airmen. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You had the FAA and Fort Bliss and some of the smartest minds in the country working on this, trying to make us safe,&#8221; said Kennedy. &#8220;Should they pass the information to the city? Yeah, but to start demanding more than that right now, I think it&#8217;s really just looking for a way to get a press headline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; The El Paso Airport ground stop and temporary flight restriction only lasted about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-161152","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\/161152","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=161152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}