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2025-06-12
The summer travel season is ramping up — but many airlines are cutting back
Americans appear to be bracing for economic uncertainty, and the demand for leisure travel is tracking the decline in consumer confidence. Getty Images | Izabela Habur By Joanne Drilling – National Data Reporter, The Business Journals Jun 12, 2025 Listen to this article5 min Story Highlights Airlines trim summer schedules because of economic uncertainty. Spirit, JetBlue, WestJet -
2025-06-11
Unsubstantiated ‘chemtrail’ conspiracy theories lead to legislation proposed in US statehouses
By SARA CLINE and MELISSA GOLDIN BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Louisiana Rep. Kimberly Landry Coates stood before her colleagues in the state’s Legislature she warned that the bill she was presenting might “seem strange” or even crazy. Some lawmakers laughed with disbelief and others listened intently, as Coates described situations that are often noted in -
2025-06-09
Three votes. Three dollars.
Funding Port Package updates made simple There’s always been confusion about Port Packages (sound insulation): Who pays for it? Who can pay for it? Who is eligible? Who should be eligible? There are a bunch of rules governing all of the above. They may seem complicated. Because they are. But the actual solutions are simple. -
2025-06-07
Website update: improved reports and maps on the way
We rarely talk about the website. But we wanted to comment on some improvements we’ve started making to one of the most popular features: Noise Reports. Speed Long story, short, we figured out a way to make the reports run very fast! This has been really frustrating. They took forever to run and sometimes just -
2025-06-07
How to find Sea-Tac’s new security checkpoint and not get lost
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
U.S. Supreme Court Narrows NEPA Review
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
Paine Field Master Plan Presentation to CAWG
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
Highline Forum May 28, 2025 (Burien City Hall)
2024 StART Annual Report, Economic Development Partnership Grant Program, City of Burien presentation. -
2025-05-27
Port of Seattle Commission annual reports on DEI and StART: sincerity vs propaganda
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
‘Vintage’ air traffic system to blame for near misses and outages, ex-FAA official says
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