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FAA abruptly lifts order halting El Paso airport flights for 10 days
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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.”
The FAA didn’t immediately say what the security reasons for the temporary sudden halt were. The airport sits next to Biggs Army Airfield and is near the Mexican border, about 12 miles from Juarez, Mexico. The Pentagon referred a question about the nature of the security issue to the FAA.
Flights were initially halted until late Feb. 20 and the ban applied to a 10-nautical-mile area around the airport.
While the FAA regularly halts flights at airports for weather and traffic, a security issue is highly unusual as is an effective airspace closure for this long.
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Texas Democrat whose district includes much of El Paso, said the move to suddenly close airspace was “unprecedented” and said that “what my office and I have been able to gather overnight and early this morning, there is no immediate threat to the community or surrounding areas.”
“There was no advance notice provided to my office, the City of El Paso, or anyone involved in airport operations,” she said in a statement. “We have urged the FAA to immediately lift the Temporary Flight Restrictions placed on the El Paso area.”
EL PASO, TEXAS – DECEMBER 25: A sign at the El Paso International Airport (ELP) on December 25, 2025 in El Paso, Texas.
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The airport served nearly 3.5 million people in the first 11 months of 2025 and is served by Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines and Frontier Airlines, according to airport data.
There were 1,314 departures scheduled for the El Paso airport this month, according to aviation-data firm Cirium.
United waived change fees for customers who need to move their flights because of the airspace closure. Southwest said it has reached out to affected travelers.
“Nothing is more important to Southwest than the Safety of its Customers and Employees,” it said.
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The Dow Industrials slid 1.6%, nearly 800 points, while U.S. crude jumped 8.5% to $81.01 a barrel, its highest price since July 2024 and its biggest one-day jump since 2020. Brent crude, the global benchmark, climbed above $85.
The Dow dropped 785 points, or 1.6%. A late rebound lifted the index from an 1,100-point hole. The S&P 500 fell 0.6%. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.3%.
West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures spiked 8.5% to $81.01 a barrel, which is its biggest one-day percentage gain since May 14, 2020, and its highest settlement since July 18, 2024, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Brent crude oil futures, the international benchmark, rose 4.9% to $85.41 a barrel.
“It all depends on how long this war will last. If it is long drawn, there will be an impact on growth because of issues linked to supply, then there will also be an impact on the external trade and exports,” said Madan Sabnavis, chief economist at Bank of Baroda.
The bank still expects the rupee to trade in the Rs 91 per dollar to Rs 92 per dollar band.
On Friday, the rupee ended at 91.74/$1, down 14 paise from its previous close of 91.60/$1, despite strong intervention by the Reserve Bank of India in both the spot market as well as the offshore non deliverable forwards market. It had sunk to a record low of 92.30/$1 on Wednesday due to heightened pressures from geopolitical crisis. For India, which imports more than 89% of its crude, the supply disruption could impact the financial markets and real economy, as 60% of India’s crude passes through the Gulf of Hormuz.
Crude futures rise to their highest settle level since July 2024 as the armed conflict in the Persian Gulf disrupts supply and raises concerns it will lead to production shut-ins as regional storage facilities fill up.
WTI settles up 8.5% at $81.01 a barrel, its sharpest single-day gain in almost six years. Brent rises 4.9% to $85.41 a barrel.
“With an end to the conflict not in sight, additional crude price strength would appear to lie ahead and should this conflict extend through next week, a WTI advance in the $95 area is certainly within realm of possibility,” Ritterbusch and Associates says in a note.
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