{"id":164034,"date":"2026-02-14T01:29:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:29:39","slug":"abc-7-xtra-sunday-aftermath-of-the-el-paso-airspace-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/164034\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC-7 Xtra Sunday &#8211; Aftermath of the El Paso airspace closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; A sudden\u00a0overnight complete closure of the airspace over El Paso and near Santa Teresa leads to major concerns and confusion\u00a0about what exactly was happening.<\/p>\n<p>As the El Paso closure was lifted just as suddenly hours later,\u00a0there were more issues raised about how decisions were being made and a lack of communication with local government and agencies.<\/p>\n<p>As travelers scrambled to change and rearrange plans even as flights returned to normal throughout the day, even more questions remain about why the actions were taken. <\/p>\n<p>So what is the local response and efforts in the aftermath, and what happens now?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Join host Andrew J. Polk as he speaks one-on-one with El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson about what the city knew and when, and what the communication and steps have been since.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in Sunday at 10:35 p.m., right after ABC-7 at 10 Weekend.<\/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; A sudden\u00a0overnight complete closure of the airspace over El Paso and near Santa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-164034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164034","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=164034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}