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 utterly concur with the damaging opinions of Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport and totally assist the deliberate enhancements (to not point out the rebrand to “SEA”).
Nevertheless, there’s a big downside that not one of the enhancements is addressing. The enhancements perversely make this downside worse: accessing the airport. In contrast to 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 vehicles 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 utterly renovated with out closing, certainly the Port of Seattle can work out use the present house so as to add a bypass.
Xavier Barrera, Seattle
