"Since September 2025, Haitian foreign terrorist organizations' (FTOs) have used small-arms fire to attack at least three aircraft within the area in which U.S. civil aviation operations are prohibited. Additionally, gangs have increasingly conducted violent attacks... north of the capital, necessitating adjustments to the area in which U.S. civil aviation operations are prohibited."
The Federal Aviation Administration reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas on Wednesday morning, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport. The Federal Aviation Administration said in a social media post that it has lifted the temporary closure of the airspace over El Paso, saying there was no threat to commercial aviation and that all flights will resume.
Positive update from the Caribbean-I was online and on the phone for HOURS all day yesterday but finally got flights so we will be heading home sooner than Friday," Han wrote in an Instagram post, adding in the video, "We all recognize and realize fully that there are far worse places to be stuck. We're lucky just to be able to have been here in the first place.
The FAA announced Sunday that it was lifting its previous mandate that air traffic be reduced by 10% due to air traffic controller fatigue, citing a safety review and steady decline of staffing-trigger events in air traffic control facilities, according to a statement from the agency. Operations returned to normal on Monday at 6 a.m. The air traffic reduction, which began Nov. 7, largely impacted 40 high-traffic airports across the country, including San Francisco International Airport and Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.
Flight schedules at JFK, LaGuardia and Newark airports will return to normal for the first time in more than a week, starting Monday at 6 a.m., according to federal officials. Authorities said air traffic controller staffing has improved enough to end an emergency order that required airlines to cut domestic flights by 10% at 40 major U.S. airports, including airports that serve New York City.
As of midnight Monday ET, the Federal Aviation Administration has restricted most general aviation flights, including private jets, at 12 major US airports due to air traffic controller callouts. That means jet owners, charter operators, and other business aviation companies cannot fly in or out of those hubs. Ed Bolen, the CEO of the National Business Aviation Association, the private aviation industry's main lobbying group, said in a Monday statement that the move is " disproportionately impacting general aviation."
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