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2025-09-17Work group revisits JBLM option to ease SEA Airport congestion
A state work group is exploring air travel at JBLM to ease SEA airport congestion, despite military opposition. Author: Drew Mikkelsen UNION GAP, Wash. — A state work group is again weighing whether to allow civilian air travel at Joint Base Lewis-McChord as a way to relieve Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s mounting congestion. The military rejected a -
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2025-09-17UECNA Webinar: Airspace Changes – Update
Across the world airspace is being modernised. Many flight paths may change. And narrow, concentrated flight paths, known as PBN, are introduced. In 2021 we already explored the impacts on local communities and asked what can be done to ensure communities can gain some benefits from the changes (Webinar No 3). Now, four year later, -
2025-09-16Paine Field expansion plan raises concerns over wetlands, salmon habitat
Author: Eric Wilkinson Published: 6:44 PM PDT September 16, 2025 Updated: 6:44 PM PDT September 16, 2025 MUKILTEO, Wash. — A proposed expansion at Paine Field could pave over nearly three acres of wetlands that neighbors say are vital for protecting salmon habitat. The airport’s plan calls for up to 32 additional acres of paving. But residents living -
2025-09-16
GAO: Aviation Meteorologists: Urgent Actions Needed to Address Staffing Concerns
GAO-25-108597 Published: Aug 28, 2025. Publicly Released: Aug 28, 2025. Fast Facts Bad weather can snarl air travel. Air traffic controllers make weather-related decisions, like changing a plane’s route, for safety and efficiency. The National Weather Service puts aviation meteorologists on-site at the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control centers to help. They give regular -
2025-09-16
Burien Airport Committee Meeting September 16, 2025
Update and discussion on application made to Student Consulting Lab (Jeff Harbaugh) Update on Port Package letter (Jeff Harbaugh) Cost and Benefits of Airport Proximity and Possible Mitigation Strategies Mathison Park Tree Removal SB 5652 E2SSB 5955 Airport Cities Impact Study Airport Impact Mitigation Study (HOK) -
2025-09-12An Air Traffic Controller Walks Into a Radio Studio …
What does it take to “play 3D chess at 250 miles an hour”? And how far will $12.5 billion of “Big, Beautiful” funding go toward modernizing the F.A.A.? (Part two of a two-part series.) -
2025-09-11Ed Bastian Shoots Down The Idea Of A Second Atlanta Airport
By Paul Hartley Paul has had a career of 25+ years focused on the international technology sector, which has taken him to over 100 countries. Along the way, he developed a deep love for aviation, with a travel bucket list measured by aircraft types flown rather than destinations reached. Now he is bringing that avgeek passion, -
2025-09-09Port of Seattle Commission Meeting
The Port of Seattle Commission is proposing to rename the South King County Community Impact Fund to the "South King and Port Communities Fund" to better reflect the program's expanded geographic reach and mission. -
2025-09-08KCIA Roundtable September 8, 2025
Vision 2045. AOPA, UW Aviation Impacts presentation. Part 150