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  • 2026-03-25

    Highline Forum – 2026 World Cup Activities

    2:30pm – Convene Meeting/Introductions Community Co-Chair Council President Papyan 2:35pm – Public Comments Audience participation via email (Kaplan.D@portseattle.org), Microsoft Teams, or in-person sign-up 2:45pm – Host Update: City of Tukwila Marty Wine, City Administrator, City of Tukwila 2:55pm – 2026 FIFA World Cup – Regional Andrea Jones, Events & Programs, Seattle Southside Chamber Mark Everton,
  • 2026-03-24

    Port of Seattle Regular Commission Meeting March 24, 2026

    The Commission will hear two very important presentations for us: First, $1,000,000 in new fees for Landrum & Brown to continue as SAMP consultants, a job they have had since the Third Runway process. Second, reorganizing the Port's bond authorization system, key to financing the SAMP both NTP today and LTP in 2032.
  • 2026-03-24

    Port of Seattle Commission March 24, 2026

    Opening and executive session Commission President Ryan Calkins: This is Commission President Ryan Calkins convening the regular meeting of March 24th, 2026. The time is 10:33 a.m. We’re meeting in person today at the SEA Conference Center and virtually on Microsoft Teams. All commissioners are present and they are currently gathered in the executive session
  • 2026-03-23

    Could the UPS crash mean the end of the Boeing-maintained MD-11?

    By Lauren Rosenblatt Seattle Times business reporter By the fall of 2025, the MD-11 was already on its way out. FedEx and UPS, the two largest MD-11 operators at the time, had started to retire the aging McDonnell Douglas-built, Boeing-supported planes in favor of newer, more efficient jets. Then, in November, a UPS MD-11 crashed

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  • 2026-03-23

    Ep #23 Honk If Ya Love California

    **Discover why environmental progress stalled for airport communities while cars got cleaner** Ever wonder why your car's emissions have dramatically improved over decades, but aviation seems stuck in the past? In this eye-opening episode of The Airport Communities Podcast, we explore the fascinating tale of two environmental paths that diverged after 1970. While Washington Senator Scoop Jackson spearheaded NEPA—one of the largest expansions of environmental policy in American history—and California secured game-changing carve-outs in the Clean Air Act that led to massive air quality improvements, aviation somehow got left behind. Despite Boeing being headquartered in Washington, aviation environmental standards never caught up. UW Meteorologist Cliff Mass delivers some stark perspective: those two annual flights to Europe generate more greenhouse gases than most people produce in their entire homes over a year. Meanwhile, Boeing's monopoly status has eliminated market incentives for cleaner technology. This wasn't an oversight—it was intentional. Today, every airport community continues paying the price for decisions made decades ago that exempted aviation from automotive-level engineering standards.
  • 2026-03-23

    2 pilots dead after Air Canada plane collides with truck at LaGuardia Airport

    Two dead in LaGuardia Airport collision March 23, 2026, 1:13 AM EDT / Updated March 23, 2026, 7:42 PM EDT By Jonathan Dienst, Jay Blackman, Josh Cradduck, Tom Costello and Corky Siemaszko New York’s LaGuardia Airport reopened Monday, 14 hours after two pilots were killed and dozens of passengers were injured when an arriving plane collided with a
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    2026-03-21

    Motion to file separate opening briefs denied

    SAMP Update: NEPA Following the FAA decision to permit the Sustainable Airport Master Plan, the Three City ILA  (Burien, Des Moines, and SeaTac) filed a shared appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court, using an attorney identified and hired by the City of SeaTac. Apparently, the attorney was also hired, in a shared decision the non-profit
  • 2026-03-19

    Port of Seattle Commission Audit Committee Meeting

    ORDER OF BUSINESS 1. Call to Order 2. Approval of Minutes – December 4, 2025 Updates and Approval (Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit) 3. Director’s Annual Communication – Independence, Internal Audit Charter, and Quality Assurance 4. Approval of Updated 2026 Audit Plan Performance Audits (Glenn Fernandes, Director, Internal Audit; Spencer Bright, Manager, Internal Audit –
  • 2026-03-17

    Sea-Tac again refuses to show video blaming Democrats for airport delays

    By Kai Uyehara Seattle Times breaking news reporter Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will not be playing a video from President Donald Trump’s administration blaming Democrats for airport delays resulting from the ongoing partial government shutdown. This is the second time the airport has declined to play such a video in the last six months. During the
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