2020 04 22 StART Meeting Summary

StART enhances cooperation between the Port of Seattle and the neighboring communities of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport April 22, 2020 Recap The SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) meeting took place on April 22, 2020, through video conference, with a focus on gaining perspective on and discussing the impacts of COVID-19 on aviation as well as the challenges facing the airport area cities. This voluntary, advisory roundtable, convened by the Airport Managing Director, Lance Lyttle, is a venue for the Port of Seattle to engage with the communities of SeaTac, Burien, Des Moines, Normandy Park, Tukwila and Federal Way. Representatives from Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines are also members. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) participates as a non-member. The cities of Burien, Des Moines, and Federal Way have temporarily suspended their involvement in StART. The Airport Managing Director, Lance Lyttle, welcomed the new community representative from Tukwila and the new cargo representative. Lyttle provided an overview of the impacts of COVID-19 on the airport. He stated that the airport has been hit very hard and provided a number of details including: • The number of travelers coming through the airport is down around 90-95% from 2018’s projections. • In 2018 there was 50,000 people a day moving through the airport and currently there is approximately 2,500 a day. • Airlines have canceled hundreds of flights. • 62 airport dining and retail locations are closed. • Many airport workers have been laid off. Lyttle emphasized that health and safety is the…

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Call to order – Roll Call – Quorum Established – Land Acknowledgement We would like to acknowledge that our Agency operates in four present-day counties, which are the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people, past and present. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with indigenous communities in our jurisdiction and [...]