Discover alternate methods to get to SEA, strive new check-in choices, and join with SEA Buyer Care
Memorial Day weekend is coming quickly, kicking off what is anticipated to be one other busy summer time season at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA). To keep away from visitors congestion and make your journey simpler, make other ways to get to the airport a part of your plans. Additionally, strive new choices for check-in on the north finish of the terminal, be prepared with Actual ID for the checkpoints, and if you happen to need assistance earlier than or after your journey or whilst you’re right here, join with SEA Customer Care to talk with an actual individual.
Attending to SEA
Keep away from the congestion on the airport drives through the use of alternatives to driving, together with Hyperlink Mild Rail, public transit, taxi, app-based rideshare, scheduled airporters, door-to-door van service, or shuttle service. Should you do drive, think about using Reserved Parking on Ground 4 of the storage the place you’re assured a spot. We advocate reserving early for finest availability. Clients ought to enable additional time (30–45 minutes) to search out drive-up spaces in Normal Parking.
SEA is right here to assist
SEA’s Customer Care team is offered to help passengers earlier than, throughout, and after their journeys. Actual assist is offered by cellphone, email, social media, or chat help by means of Customer Care Connect, which affords closed captions and translations in additional than 60 languages. When you’re on the airport, you could find our staff in inexperienced from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the two Info Desks, or use Buyer Care Join touchscreens close to the Info Desks, Baggage Declare 15, Checkpoint 4, or or close to Gate A6.
Actual ID is in place
REAL ID is right here — be prepared! The REAL ID Act requires anybody touring by airplane to make use of a REAL ID-compliant doc. Examine the full list of accepted ID documents or lookup info by means of the Washington State Department of Licensing website. Should you don’t have a Actual ID–compliant doc, bear in mind that it might take you longer to get by means of safety checkpoints.
Get acquainted with your checkpoints and Bridge Degree check-in!
Alaska Airways affords straightforward check-in and bag drop on the Bridge Level alongside the skybridges from the airport storage. You need to use this check-in space even if you happen to’re not coming from the storage. The brand new applied sciences are a part of the SEA Gateway Project. Bear in mind, Checkpoint 6 is closed for upgrades till later this yr. Ask any airport worker in inexperienced for instructions and steering by means of safety checkpoints and the remainder of the terminal.
Numbers to know
From Wednesday, Might 21, to Monday, Might 26, an estimated 970,000 vacationers will undergo SEA. The busiest days of the vacation interval are Thursday and Friday with the best projections to be:
- Friday, Might 23, 182,000 estimated total vacationers (arriving, departing, and connecting)
- Thursday, Might 22, 181,000 passengers
- Monday, Might 26, 163,000 passengers
- Wednesday, Might 21, 154,000 passengers
Go-to suggestions and methods
Arrive early. Keep away from feeling rushed — get to the terminal at the least two hours earlier than your boarding time for a home flight and three hours earlier than a world flight. Issue within the time you must journey from off-site parking or drop-offs to the terminal. A couple of-third of SEA’s every day passenger quantity arrives on the airport earlier than 9:00 a.m., inflicting busy situations at TSA safety checkpoints and on the airport drives. Two extra peak durations happen from 2:00 to five:00 p.m. and from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Benefit from SEA Spot Saver. Secure a spot in line to make the safety checkpoint course of simpler. Checkpoint wait occasions are at the moment not out there on-line, on the flySEA App, or within the terminal, however employees in inexperienced can be there to information you to the most effective queue for you. Use SEA’s interactive map for instructions to the checkpoints, your gate, a favourite restaurant, or facilities.
Keep away from visitors. Bypass the congested Arrival and Departure drives through the use of Hyperlink Mild Rail, public transit, airport parking, taxi, app-based rideshare, scheduled airporter, door-to-door van service, or shuttle companies. When choosing somebody up, briefly park within the SEA Airport parking storage, getting into from the Worldwide Blvd entrance, to satisfy arriving vacationers within the terminal, then exit collectively by means of the storage with out ever utilizing the drives. You may even decide up a espresso whilst you’re ready!
Assume reverse. Should you select to make use of the drives, use the decrease Arrivals drive as a substitute of the higher Departures drive throughout peak morning hours, and vice versa if you happen to’re choosing somebody up within the night. Or use whichever lane is transferring sooner – all of them go to the identical terminal.
Head straight to safety. Examine in to your flight forward of time and obtain or print your boarding cross. Evaluate your airline’s baggage insurance policies, and if you happen to don’t must verify a bag, head straight to the safety checkpoints.
Attempt a Social Story for assist touring. The SEA Airport Social Story and Resource Guide is designed for vacationers with autism or different invisible disabilities to repeatedly assessment with their household/caregivers previous to journey.
Contact
Kassie McKnight-Xi | Aviation Communications and Advertising Supervisor
(206) 787-5940 | [email protected]
