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CACC issues its final report The Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC) voted on a final recommendation for its final report at the last CACC meeting June 9. That recommendation was to use the results of a Spring 2023 CACC survey as the final report. The report has the survey results and comments for the upcoming
By Robert Hodgman Special to The Seattle Times If you’ve traveled through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the last few months, you may have noticed it’s a bit more crowded than it has been in the recent past. Post-pandemic air travel has already surpassed pre-pandemic levels and all indicators are air travel will continue to grow.
2023-06-09
CACC Final Meeting Presentation June 9 2023 CACC Final Meeting Transcript
2023-05-16
The passage of 1791-S.PL acknowledges that the battle for a second airport process (known as the CACC) is lost. But, let’s pretend it’s not. However, if previous efforts (such as the Flight Plan Study of 1989) are any indication, HB-1791 will not only result in years of delay, it will actually work to accelerate the pace
Provides an analysis of second airport options in Pierce, Thurston and Enumclaw, plus provides important forecast updates for Sea-Tac and Paine Field. It’s important to understand that any discussion of a second airport is always predicated on expanding Sea-Tac Airport to the max. Again: maximizing the potential of Sea-Tac will always be the baseline before
2023-03-21
HB1791 is a bill of the 2023 State of Washington Legislative session, which attempts to re-constitute the failed CACC process, commonly known as “the search for a second airport. As of today, the bill has passed the House and is under review in the Senate. You can follow its progress and provide your own comment
By Tom Dent and Karen Keiser Special to The Times We are at the start of the greatest transformation in flight since the development of the jet engine. It is not going to happen overnight, and we won’t see large, emissions-free commercial aircraft anytime soon, but like what we have witnessed with space exploration, technological
2022-10-16
I wrote the following article in 2018: *Why There Is No Second Airport In Site I’m throwing up that old news in light of the fact that yesterday, the Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission (CACC) met its statutory obligation to deliver a recommendation on a ‘second airport’, basically by punting a final decision into 2023 which