The busiest season for flying in and out of Sea-Tac airport starts in about two weeks.
This is when families take advantage of the kids out of school and break away for summer adventures. Those families are adding to the cruise ship passengers who already started making the airport busier back in mid-April.
The construction areas can easily be seen when people drive into the airport to drop off or pick up passengers. Alaska Airlines is turning the very north end of that new promenade into a new ticketing area, to be lined with kiosks to print bag tags. "First, we introduce kiosks in the industry, and we're also the first to get rid of them in the industry,” said Shane Jones with Alaska Airlines.
This type of streamlining and fast-tracking is needed, with the airport expected pre-pandemic crowds of travelers this summer nearing roughly 52 million, the number that flew through SEA during 2019.
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