2025-06-07
By Nicholas Deshais Seattle Times staff reporter Seattle-Tacoma International Airport’s new security checkpoint opened Friday, but travelers can be forgiven for wondering where, exactly, it is. In short, the new Checkpoint 1 is downstairs on the baggage claim level, below a hanging replica of a historic aircraft, the Rutan Voyager, the first to fly around the
2025-05-30
Court removes “indirect effects” requirement The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, on May 29, 2025, narrowing the scope of environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, the Court reversed in part the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ finding that the Surface Transportation
2025-05-28
This will never be the second airport We are re-posting this after a Port of Seattle lobbyist’s recent public comments on their support of a ‘second airport‘ which, once again, stirred vain hopes that Paine Field might provide some ‘relief’ to SEA. That is not what anyone in the room was saying. A presentation to
2025-05-28
2024 StART Annual Report, Economic Development Partnership Grant Program, City of Burien presentation.
2025-05-27
Diversity in Contracting shows genuine progress. StART is just more stonewalling and propaganda At its May 27, 2025 meeting, the Port of Seattle Commission reviewed two major annual reports that ostensibly reflect two major commitments: the 2024 SEA Stakeholder Advisory Round Table (StART) Annual Report and the Diversity in Contracting Annual Report. The content and
2025-05-20
By Geoff Bennett and Jackson Hudgins Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport again lost contact with planes Monday, according to the FAA. It’s the fourth such incident at that airport in less than a month and the latest in a string of alarming incidents and close calls at airports across the country. Geoff
2025-05-18
A lot of money. A master class in PR. The Port of Seattle Commission’s May 13, 2025 meeting (Packet) included a 10-year contract extension for airport noise monitoring, a proposed $950 million bond issuance for aviation projects, and updates on environmental and equity goals – including sound insulation replacement/repair. Noise Monitoring contract extended through 2035
2025-05-17
By David Kroman Seattle Times staff reporter Two Alaska Airlines planes clipped wingtips at Sea-Tac Airport on Saturday afternoon, forcing the planes back to their gates and passengers to deplane. The contact occurred just after noon and was “minor,” according to Port of Seattle spokesperson Kassie McKnight-Xi. There were no injuries reported. The collision also
2025-05-17
Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to fly certain routes today than it did in the 1950s. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy even compared the old equipment to something you’d see on the set of Apollo 13. Duffy and President Donald Trump recently unveiled a plan
2025-05-16
On May 14, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced via press release that it will reduce the scope of its April 10, 2024 National Primary Drinking Water Regulation to the two most prevalent per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) compounds, PFOA and PFOS, and extend the compliance timeline for public water systems by two years, from
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