President’s Day Holiday Travel Tips for Your SEA Airport Experience

Travelers heading out for the mid-winter split of Presidents Day are reminded to program ahead for an a lot easier expertise via Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA).

The airport expanded hours for its no cost SEA Location Saver company, which will save treasured time in the TSA checkpoints, ideal for family members who want to get the strain out of security screening. A totally free company from United States Customs and Border Security, Mobile Passport Manage, can velocity global vacationers through arrival. What else is new? Enjoy new retail and dining alternatives now open at N Concourse, and prepare for Enhance SEA construction on the skybridges, the curb, and in baggage declare.

These tips ought to enable any traveler, but all those with early flights ought to take the most treatment. Commonly, a lot more than a single-third of our everyday quantity arrives at the airport ahead of 9:00 a.m. Travelers heading out ahead of 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. really should be well prepared for quite chaotic disorders at TSA stability and on the drives. Use these tips to skip the line.   

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Skip the Line

Get thru safety promptly! The no cost SEA Place Saver software expanded its early morning and night hours to pace you by means of TSA screening. Indication-up 72 several hours in advance on-line or at the terminal with a QR code following to the checkpoints.

• Heading to Mexico or an additional international place for your holiday getaway? Down load the Mobile Passport Control app in advance of you leave household. Increase your vacation specifics as you land back again at SEA. Accumulate your baggage and go straight to a committed line in the arrival hall. Your complete spouse and children can total the customs system from a single cellular system.
• Keep away from the hassles of driving and parking with Sound Transit’s Url mild rail. Airport parking will be a challenge. Consider alternate modes of transportation to/from the airport like a taxi or experience share possibility.
• If driving and parking is your very best preference, the new automated parking steerage procedure upgrades your experience in the garage with quick-to-use lights that suggests readily available stalls. Or Switch it up to Pace it Up! Prevent the airport’s longest traffic traces by applying the arrivals/decrease stage to drop off in the morning and departures/upper amount to select up in the night.
• Try Order SEA, a mobile ordering company that allows you to select up foods on the way to your gate. Buy via the SEA Airport application.

Try Some thing New

• New eats are out there at N Concourse — Nine new locations opened not long ago and are prepared for you to uncover. Newbies include things like the initial at any time Costa Espresso retail area at a U.S. airport — a staple in the U.K.!
• The Central Terminal is performed! Salty’s at the SEA and BrewTop Social and the new Amex Lounge full this roomy modernization. Arrive back for more seating, dining possibilities, and the very best airport sights.

We’re Upgrading SEA

• Improve SEA highlights a lot more than $4.6 billion in improvements underway more than the subsequent five-a long time, here’s a website for much more facts.
• Building for basic safety and accessibility advancements sad to say means temporary closures alongside garage skybridges and the airport drives.
• A key new ticketing region renovation project has spillover impacts in the baggage declare region.

By The Numbers

This holiday break will be pretty much again to usual. The forecast for the period Thursday by way of Tuesday is passenger travel as a result of the protection checkpoints will be at 98{0b5b04b8d3ad800b67772b3dcc20e35ebfd293e6e83c1a657928cfb52b561f97} of 2019 levels (about 12 Per cent about last calendar year) – some 308,000 passengers departing by way of the checkpoints or far more than 830,000 all round by way of the airport (departing, arriving, and connecting).

The busiest times are expected to be Friday in advance of the holiday break at 159,000 tourists over-all, adopted by Tuesday at 152,000, and Thursday at 146,000. TSA stability checkpoints are busiest at SEA from 5:00 – 10:00 a.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 9:00 –11:00 p.m. 

For 2022, SEA was just below 46 million passengers (45,964,321), 27.1 per cent around 2021 and down 11.3 p.c compared to 2019. Projections for 2023 is for targeted visitors levels to be brief of 2019 amounts by only 6 per cent for the year with pre-pandemic stages returning in 2024.Dig in far more on our Airport Figures website page.

What is the Ideal Information for Travelers?

• Get right here early! Relying on your requires, you might have to have extra time. Make guaranteed you’re at the airport at minimum two several hours before your boarding time for a domestic flight and a few hours in advance of an global flight
• Be prepped with your airline ahead of time! Make positive you check their baggage guidelines, check in, and have all their apps downloaded for economical vacation. See our most effective baggage suggestions!
• Safety 1st Keep away from Shoulder Parking — Vehicles are inspired to use the new reconfigured cellphone ton and keep away from risky parking alongside the shoulder of the airport drives. Violators will be cited as the Port of Seattle Police are operating with the Washington Condition Patrol for emphasis patrols during the holiday getaway.

Give me the Traveler Fundamentals

• The CDC steerage for tourists adjustments depending on your COVID-19 vaccination position. Verify with your airline for the point out or nation in which you prepare to journey.
• Be all set for stability checkpoints. SEA and TSA want to support you go by means of as promptly as feasible. Tourists are needed to take away electronics bigger than a cell cellphone from carry-on luggage. Also, take away meals and liquids from your carry-on baggage and get ready to keep up your boarding pass for overview. You can also see the latest Identification and Documentation Necessities.
• Want much more journey hacks? Our Customer Treatment group has the best assistance to navigate SEA like a regular flier.
• SEA continues to insert new companies to make vacation much more available and increase the vacation encounter outside of the Americans with Disabilities Act prerequisites. Check out out our SEA Social Story developed for vacationers with sensory sensitivities this kind of as autism, but also wonderful in general recommendations for young ones. Understand additional about accessibility at SEA. The interactive map on the flySEA Application features accessible route directions.
• Look at with the Town of SeaTac to see if there are any road development jobs that may well hinder your entry to the airport.

Get hold of

Perry Cooper | Port of Seattle Senior Media Officer
(206) 787-4923 | cooper.p@portseattle.org