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The airport has served as Seattle's official weather recording location since 1945. [83] As of April 2023, Sea-Tac has over 23,000 total workers, including 400 to 500 customs agents and 850 TSA security officers. The airport has 3,800 cameras that are monitored from a control center staffed by Port of Seattle Airport Operations personnel.
The Seattle–Tacoma International Airport was built in 1944 and began commercial service in 1947. [9] During the airport's first major expansion in the 1960s, provisions were made to build facilities for "some form of rapid transit". [10]
Pullman–Moscow Regional Airport: P-N 66,669 Seattle: BFI: BFI KBFI King County International Airport (Boeing Field) P-N 18,586 Seattle / Tacoma SEA: SEA KSEA Seattle–Tacoma International Airport: P-L 24,024,908 Spokane: GEG: GEG KGEG Spokane International Airport (Geiger Field) P-S 1,872,781 Walla Walla: ALW: ALW KALW Walla Walla Regional ...
Angle Lake station is located above the intersection of South 200th Street and 28th Avenue South in SeaTac, southeast of the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport and a block west of International Boulevard (State Route 99). The elevated station spans South 200th Street on the west side of 28th Avenue South, with two entrances on each side of ...
In 2024, Seattle Center handled 1,174,034 aircraft. [ 2 ] The control center is located at 3101 Auburn Way S, Auburn, Washington , which is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport , the only Class B airport served by the center.
According to the Port of Seattle, which runs SEA Airport, the busiest time of the year for the airport is actually during the summer. An average travel day in August 2024 was about 175,000 people.
The first section of the Tacoma–Seattle–Everett freeway to be built was in southern Tacoma and was opened to traffic in October 1959. The Tacoma sections opened in October 1962 from the Puyallup River to the Kent–Des Moines Road (now SR 516) in Midway, [ 92 ] and in October 1964 in downtown Tacoma. [ 93 ]
The City of Tacoma paid $100,000 toward the original construction of Sea-Tac with the agreement that Tacoma would always be included in the airport’s name. The airport code is SEA, because ...