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Airport News (August 13 - 20)
- Sound Transit Impacts - From 7 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 12, to approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 15, there will be maintenance on the elevator serving the street and mezzanine levels. During this time, passengers requiring elevator service must use another station.
- King County Metro bus routes can provide connecting service to and from other 1 Line stations.
- Rapid Ride A Line serves Tukwila International Boulevard Station, SeaTac/Airport, and Angle Lake stations.
- Security Checkpoint Changes - Effective Aug. 11, the TSA Checkpoints changed screening types. See the chart below for the latest screening type updates, and check out the security screening page for more details
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- SEA Gateway Project
- On August 15, construction barricades under Skybridges 4 and 5 will be removed.
- On the far north end in Zone 7 of the Ticketing Level, Alaska Airlines has opened up a brand-new Check-In area with new Bag Tag Stations (BTS) as well as a new Automated Bag Drop (ABD) stations. This helps relieve congestion in the Alaska Airlines Ticketing area. A new piece of digital art has also been recently installed and is live on the far north end. It is a 60-foot-long digital art piece by Jennifer Steinkamp called “Cosmic."
- Bag Claims 15/16 Replacement
- Starting August 13 - 15, the handrail south of Bag Claim 15 will be removed, work area will be sectioned off with cones.
- SEA Underground Controls Replacement
- Starting the evening of August 18 until the morning of August 22, the Green Line closes from midnight to 6 a.m. and Yellow Line closes overnight 10 p.m. - 6 a.m. with over the ramp bussing between D26 and N12.
- South Entry Parking Garage Repaving
- Starting August 18 until early September, Helix 5 will be closed from south entry. Please detour to Helix 7. App-based rideshare and Reserved Parking will not be impacted.
- Maintenance
- As of August 10, parking rows on the 3rd floor of the garage that are north of TNC are permanently closed for transition to TNC staging.
- On August 17, Elevator MT-9 will be closed overnight from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Please direct travelers to C Concourse elevator.
- On August 18, Elevator CTS-1 will be closed overnight from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Amex lounge customers will only have stair access during this time.
- On August 20, Elevator CTN-1 will be closed overnight from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Brewtop Social customers will only have stair access during this time.
- On August 20, Elevator MT-1 to SEA Underground A Station will be closed overnight from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
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