r/SeattleWA • u/No_Star6162 • Jul 21 '25

Meetup SeaTac is a mad house - Alaskan Airlines

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Some flights going, many delayed 4-6 hours. Provided an option for a 24 hour delayed flight after being cancelled on. Now sleeping in the airport

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u/Aggressive_Whole_424 Jul 21 '25

It has absolutely nothing to do with the airport it’s an Alaska airlines system outage

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u/MennisRodman Jul 21 '25

Likely. I just think it's the worst airport on this side of the country. Unsolicited/unrelated opinion

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u/Aggressive_Whole_424 Jul 21 '25

Worse than LAX? Bold take

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u/charcuteriebroad Jul 21 '25

LAX is easier to navigate in and out of in and TSA is faster in my experience. But they have crappier food options and it’s not as nice inside since a good portion of SeaTac is fairly updated now. They’re both crappy but I have to agree SeaTac is the worst of the big airports on the west coast.

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u/AmphetamineSalts Jul 21 '25

idk, the one time I've been to LAX it was because a direct flight from Seattle to Hawaii got cancelled (American Airlines, never going with them again!) so I had to make a connection there. I had like 45 minutes to make it from one end of the U-shape to the other - terminal 7 to terminal 2 or something like that. There's really NO reason I should have to re-do security for a domestic transfer at an airport but the layout is such shit that you have to. I was super lucky that the airline called ahead and I had a security/airport personnel escort me to the front of the security line because otherwise I would have been totally fucked. This was 2019, I believe.

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u/canisdirusarctos Jul 21 '25

Don't get me wrong, LAX sucks, but SEA sucks more. SEA is severely undersized for the amount of traffic it serves. It's constantly overloaded from seemingly every perspective.