I learn “Sea-Tac must modernize to meet the needs of a growing region” with nice curiosity.
As a transplant to Seattle and frequent flyer, I fully concur with the damaging opinions of Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport and totally help the deliberate enhancements (to not point out the rebrand to “SEA”).
Nonetheless, there’s a big drawback that not one of the enhancements is addressing. The enhancements perversely make this drawback worse: accessing the airport. Not like San Francisco Worldwide Airport to the south, Sea-Tac doesn’t have a “bypass” lane for passengers flying Delta or Singapore. We should all endure the backup cased by 50%-plus of automobiles dropping off passengers for Alaska. Extra gates imply extra flights, extra flights imply extra passengers, extra passengers imply an excellent longer backup except Departures Drive is reconfigured.
If LaGuardia Airport was fully renovated with out closing, absolutely the Port of Seattle can determine the way to use the prevailing area so as to add a bypass.
Xavier Barrera, Seattle
