Two million passengers had to take buses to or from their planes at S-E-A in 2019, maybe 2-4% of total passengers.
I have been flying a lot over the last five years, taking my son Tommy to football camps and eventually traveling with Holly to watch Tommy play games around the country. I had no idea that Sea-Tac Airport was bussing people to planes, and I’m the transportation reporter, which is pretty embarrassing.We took a right out of the main D Concourse. Within a few steps, we were looking at the parking garage and Holly said to me, “There’s no way our plane can fit here.”She was right.
“You won’t see it as you’re making a reservation for the plane,” Cooper said. “That decision might be made that morning by the airlines as to where they’re going to go, but if you see a number here at that’s 20 or above, that tells you that’s a ground boarding position at any of our concourses.” It’s a common practice in Europe and across the United States. Two million passengers had to take buses to or from their planes at Sea-Tac Airport in 2019, maybe 2-4% of total passengers. So far this year about 220,000 passengers have done it.
“We’ve squeezed in every passenger loading bridge gate that we could and every space that we can and then once we did that it’s like what’s our next option for what can we do,” he said.“We’ve identified both on the north and south end of the airfield where those planes can now park in those peak periods and then take advantage of the ground boarding up opportunities,” Cooper said.
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