{"id":66024,"date":"2026-02-11T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-officials-abruptly-close-airspace-in-el-paso-texas-for-10-days-in-unusual-move\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:02:22","slug":"us-officials-abruptly-close-airspace-in-el-paso-texas-for-10-days-in-unusual-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-officials-abruptly-close-airspace-in-el-paso-texas-for-10-days-in-unusual-move\/","title":{"rendered":"US officials abruptly close airspace in El Paso, Texas, for 10 days in unusual move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAA cited \u2018special security reasons\u2019 for shutting off skies around El Paso airport in area along border with Mexico<\/p>\n<p>US authorities have abruptly closed the airspace around El Paso international airport in Texas for 10 days for \u201cspecial security reasons\u201d, shutting off the skies for all aircraft in an area along the border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) posted <a href=\"https:\/\/tfr.faa.gov\/tfr3\/?page=detail_6_2233\">the \u201ctemporary flight restriction\u201d notice<\/a> on its website late on Tuesday, stating that a 10-nautical-mile circle up to 18,000ft would be off limits for all commercial, cargo and general aviation flights.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/11\/faa-close-airspace-el-paso-texas-airport\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAA cited \u2018special security reasons\u2019 for shutting off skies around El Paso airport in area along border with Mexico US authorities have abruptly closed the airspace around El Paso international airport in Texas for 10 days for \u201cspecial security reasons\u201d, shutting off the skies for all aircraft in an area along the border with Mexico. &#8230; <a title=\"US officials abruptly close airspace in El Paso, Texas, for 10 days in unusual move\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/us-officials-abruptly-close-airspace-in-el-paso-texas-for-10-days-in-unusual-move\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US officials abruptly close airspace in El Paso, Texas, for 10 days in unusual move\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}