This is weird...

[Liberal In Texas]

All flights at El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'security reasons,' FAA says

All flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas have been halted for “special security reasons,” the Federal Aviation Administration said early Wednesday.

“No pilots may operate an aircraft in the areas covered by this NOTAM,” the FAA said, using the abbreviation for Notice to Airmen. It listed the reason as “temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons.”

The restriction for the airspace over El Paso and the neighboring community of Santa Teresa, New Mexico came in at 6:30 a.m. UTC, or coordinated universal time (11:30 p.m. ET). It will end at the same time on Feb. 21.

It did not elaborate on why the restrictions had been put in place for El Paso, which borders Mexico and is the the 23rd-most populous city in the nation according to the 2020 census.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/flights-el-paso-airport-texas-halted-10-days-security-reasons-faa-rcna258497

Very strange. This is like a pretty major airport. And no real good reason being given.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

1. That will irk a lot of folk

This administration acts in super secrecy 24/7. Eventually any reason given will not be truth.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. One wonders if this isn't some prelude to some military foray into Mexico.

These people are crazy.

[highplainsdem]

5. My first thought, too, when I heard about this.

[GiqueCee]

6. "CRAZY"...

... can be treated. EVIL cannot. In any and all dealings concerning the current illegitimate regime, assume the latter.

[niyad]

13. You are quite correct.

[Lonestarblue]

8. Trump has already said he wants the US military to attack drug cartels in Mexico.

I doubt the President of Mexico has agreed, which means any attack is an act of war. Trump and Hegseth love attacking other countries and killing innocent civilians. I guess it makes them feel like "real" men instead of the idiots they are.

[Historic NY]

22. Flight trader had a strange helicopter flight(Med Flight) tracked there the other evening

from a civilian company in NM. When General Pershing lead his raids into Mexico he used Ft. Bliss. home of 1st Armour today.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. Nearby White Sands National Park was a missle testing facility during WW II and after nt

[Historic NY]

29. Well it turns out is was allegedly mexican cartels making deliveries with drones

hey if amazon delivers they do too.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. Planes loaded with people on their way to internment camps land

then are unloaded and bussed into Juarez?

Once they are all loaded, air travel is restored.

[aeromanKC]

3. JFC, he can't die soon enough!!

[Moostache]

26. Amen! (*cue the 'Hallelujah' chorus and chill the champagne for the blessed news....SOON!!!) n/t

[3Hotdogs]

4. Maybe gunfire at Rosa's Cantina.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

15. That was my first thought too....

[returnee]

16. One night a wild young cowboy came in... n/t

[roscoeroscoe]

7. I like the UFO crash retrieval theory

They've got to clean the site, can't have any overflights. West of El Paso.

[FakeNoose]

9. Are any DUers seeing this in the El Paso newspapers?

I'd be interested in how this is being reported locally.

[duhneece]

17. My US Congressman Gabe Vasquez shared this information

I saw a video by my Congressman announcing this and expressing concern in a serious way.
I first wondered if it was something to do with the biggest concentration camps.

[barbtries]

10. I'm suspicious.

thinking the govt will be doing something, like taking delivery of these illegal weapons from Israel that krasnov bought with a no bid deal and no one knew about it until it was a done deal. Or shipping jets full of innocent people to parts unknown. Or who the fuck knows.

I don't think the US Intelligence community is working to ensure the security of the American people anymore.

https://theintercept.com/2026/02/06/pentagon-israel-cluster-munitions-weapons-sale/

The Department of Defense has quietly signed a $210 million deal to buy advanced cluster shells from one of Israel’s state-owned arms companies, marking unusually large new commitments to a class of weapons and an Israeli defense establishment both widely condemned for their indiscriminate killing of civilians.

The deal, signed in September and not previously reported, is the department’s largest contract to purchase weapons from an Israeli company in available records, according to an online federal database that covers the last 18 years. In a reversal of the more commonly seen direction for weapons transfers between the countries — in which the U.S. sends its weapons to Israel — the U.S. will pay the Israeli weapons firm Tomer over a period of three years to produce a new 155mm munition. The shells are designed to replace decades-old and often defective cluster shells that left live explosives scattered across Vietnam, Laos, Iraq, and other nations.

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Yup the demented nursing patient in the white house

Is going to bomb Mexico. Pedo Trump can't get it up anymore because little girls are being kept away from his greasy little fingers. The only thing that gives him a thrill anymore is killing Hispanic people.

Sone one should warn Mexico that cluster bombs are about to drop on their heads.

[barbtries]

21. i was thinking they're for dropping on our heads.

sigh.
Going to another #MassProtest on Saturday in Raleigh. Looking forward to it.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

19. Are they buying extras just to shoot at Shady's motorcade?

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vances-motorcade-hit-by-shrapnel-from-california-military-exercise-10903952

[niyad]

11. Frightening implications.

[Melon]

18. I think it's cartel related.

It’s right across from Juarez. 300 miles from Nancy Guthrie kidnapping. They also closed more space near the border but north and only over dessert.

[mnhtnbb]

20. Hours later the FAA lifts the order.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/faa-el-paso-airport.html

The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly grounded all flights in and out of El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days starting Wednesday, citing “special security” instructions, and then lifted the order hours later.

“The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso has been lifted,” the FAA said in a post on X. “There is no threat to commercial aviation. All flights will resume as normal.”

Even more weird.

[Liberal In Texas]

23. Mexican Drones!

According to CNN, Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace, an administration official told CNN, which triggered a temporary airspace closure over El Paso.

The airspace closure was prompted by a US military operation related to drug cartels, according to two sources briefed on the matter.

"The Department of War (sic) took action to disable the drones,” the official told CNN. "The FAA and DOW have determined there is no threat to commercial travel."
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/faa-grounds-all-flights-to-and-from-el-paso-until-feb-20

So they initially closed the airspace for 10 days! because they couldn't figure out how to deal with one drone?

[Farmer-Rick]

24. One of the Pedo's handlers told the crazy king

That maybe he shouldn't bomb Mexico right now. Then pointed out the destroyed East Wing and imaginary ballroom which cheered him up.

Then ICE Barbie said to the demented nursing home patient, "Look, over there, an Epstein file." And he switched to wanting to bomb DC.

[harumph]

25. That sounds like made up bullshit to me.