{"id":161696,"date":"2026-02-12T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161696\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:10:10","slug":"stark-contrast-at-el-paso-international-airport-day-after-faa-calls-off-aerospace-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/161696\/","title":{"rendered":"Stark contrast at El Paso International Airport day after FAA calls off aerospace shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flights resume to normal operations on Thursday after the Federal Aviation Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/news\/top-stories\/2026\/02\/11\/all-flights-to-and-from-el-paso-santa-teresa-grounded\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">halted flights<\/a> in and out of El Paso starting right before midnight on Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded and confused Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Just 24-hours later, a big difference with a smooth pace and normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers went through short and quick lines to check-in with their airlines and drop off baggage. <\/p>\n<p>Car rental companies were open and had no customers in line, where compared to the same time on Wednesday, they were closed and lines were extending.<\/p>\n<p>ABC-7 is still working to get information on what happened for the FAA to shut down the aerospace in the El Paso region without communication with city or state officials. <\/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":"Flights resume to normal operations on Thursday after the Federal Aviation Administration halted flights in and out of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-161696","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\/161696","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=161696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}