FAA Lifts Temporary Flight Suspension at El Paso Airport

The agency cited unspecified ’special security reasons’ for the sweeping suspension that affected all commercial and cargo traffic.

The Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration building in Washington on July 21, 2007. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Feb. 11 lifted a temporary suspension of flights to and from El Paso International Airport in Texas, hours after grounding all operations for what it had described as “special security reasons.”

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