![]() ![]() If you visit during the spring, winter, or fall, you need a warm coat and an umbrella. You can use the sign to look for rental cars from the airport. Seattle uses a grid system for its roads, which makes finding your hotel easy if you drive. The light rail system drops passengers directly at some of the top hotels in the downtown area. The buses and light rails only cost a few dollars, and you can visit the sales counter at any station to purchase tickets for your trip. ![]() When you need to reach your hotel quickly, head for the public transportation system, which consists of Sound Transit and Metro Transit. It's just a short drive from the airport to downtown. The South Satellite Terminal specializes in international flights. Though the airport has three terminals, only the Concourse Terminal and North Satellite Terminal handle domestic flights. Located in SeaTac, Washington, the airport sits along the intersection of three state routes: 99, 518, and 509. Alaska Airlines, Air Canada, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, and US Airways are a few airlines that operate out of this airport. Also known as Sea-Tac, this airport is responsible for all incoming flights, along with flights from Seattle. ![]() In the next few months, both Turkish Airlines and Finnair are scheduled to begin new service to SEA too.While Seattle is home to several airports, the only one that handles commercial flights is the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. SEA currently has 11 airlines serving 14 international destinations, including Qatar Airways to Doha (DOH), which was the first new international carrier to begin SEA service since the start of the pandemic. While international traffic was down more than 80% from 2019 to the end of 2020, SEA says it has recovered more than half of its pre-pandemic international destinations. The Port of Seattle, which operates SEA airport, is conducting final readiness testing in the IAF and will begin welcoming early morning international flights and arriving passengers in the Grand Hall later this month.Īnd even though the facility is opening later than originally planned, the timing now seems right. The three spinning suspended metallic mobiles in the Grand Hall are part of Ned Kahn’s work titled Magnetic Anomaly. The five 50-foot, brightly painted, site specific sculptures suspended over five of the baggage carousels are part of Chalchiutlicue, by Marela Zacarías. SEA airport is well known for having art throughout the facility, and the IAF included the opportunity to add more. (Photo courtesy of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport) SEA is putting the finishing touches on a new, much bigger, light and art-filled international arrivals facility – the IAF – and giving the media and the public a first look at the space in a series of live streaming video events today, March 3.Ĭarousel areas are seen in a preview of Seattle's new International Arrivals Facility. Soon that experience will be streamlined and far more pleasant. Once inside SEA’s current arrivals facility, passengers must then go through immigration, reclaim their luggage in a crowded baggage area with only four carousels, then line up again to go through customs, recheck bags for connecting flights, and board a train to the main terminal. Then, “when they are let off the plane, we often have to keep passengers in the corridors because we don’t have enough space inside the facility to process everyone,” Lance Lyttle, SEA’s managing director told TPG. On peak summer days international passengers are commonly held on planes because there aren’t enough gates at the current 1970s-era facility to deplane all international passengers. Welcome signs are seen during a preview of Seattle's new International Arrivals Facility. ![]()
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