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Airlines are thriving as people keep traveling
By Niraj Chokshi The New York Times Summer travel is off to a roaring start, with little sign of a slowdown on the horizon. And airline executives say they are doing all they can to keep up, including contending with bad weather and congestion in the skies and on the ground. Three of the nation’s -
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Sea-Tac Airport has billions in projects planned. Here’s where the money’s going.
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has cut the ribbon on nearly $2 billion worth of major capital projects in the last two years, but much more remains on its to-do list. The airport is looking ahead to another roughly $5 billion in updates through 2027. That’s in an effort to manage what’s now elevated demand throughout the -
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2023-05-26 00:22When Sea-Tac Airport disappeared for six months
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was renamed Henry M. Jackson International Airport in tribute to the late senator for six months in the early 1980s. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio) BY FELIKS BANEL Local historian The history of the word “Sea-Tac” (or “Seatac,” or “SeaTac”) as an abbreviation for “Seattle-Tacoma” can feel a little murky sometimes. As far as anybody -
Meet a few of the 23,329 people who keep Sea-Tac Airport humming 24/7
By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter IF YOU’RE AN ADULT in Western Washington, there’s a 50/50 chance that you flew out of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2022. The specific statistic for this region is 2.4 million adults, or 54%, according to the market research firm Nielsen Scarborough. So, yes: Sea-Tac is a very familiar -
Sea-Tac’s parking garage is huge, pricey and almost always mostly full
1 of 2 | The Sea-Tac parking garage, with 13,000 spaces, is the world’s second-largest parking lot, according to the online geography site WorldAtlas.com. Number 1 honors go to the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, with 20,000 spaces…. (Port of Seattle, 1968) By Erik Lacitis Seattle Times staff reporter Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s -
Oris Dunham To Cliff Muller Re Noise Monitor Calibration STCP 19820129 0001
Notwithstanding the letter to the Port of Seattle on January 7, 1982 fully endorsed by other TAC members and myself , there are some other recommendations and concerns that should be discussed that directly impact the Riverton Heights Cownunity, The Sea/Tac Airport noise rneasuring equipment would guarantee greater accuracy if it were calibrated annually by a calibratioi/certification firm with calibration apparatus traceable directly to a national standard, Aviation equipment of all sorts require calibration and certification to national standards and it is therefore reasonable for aircraft noise measuring equipment to also be subjected to such a program, The Port elnployed the Perry Company as rloise consultant for the study update, would strongly reconmend that both Perry and an independent noise consultant sign the study update ; Perry's signature attest;ing to the validity of the study and the independent as an auditor verifyinG its acctuacy, The noise study placed too much ealp:basis on the fixed monitoring stations without adequate confirrnation of the ability of such stations to detect noise within the communities, Therefore, it is suggested that additional noise !neasurelnents be made in the community via the portable system or through a fixed monitoring syste trl, The station at South !1+6th is not in the colwnunity, but in the clear zone and too far north of the runway to accurately detect the take-off, and landing thrust reverser noise to which the cowlunity is subjected along 214th Avenue South, and between South 151+th and north beyond South II+6th, While additional renedia for…