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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Nov 4, 2019, 02:13 PM Nov 2019

With Sea-Tac nearly maxed out, where to land a new airport?

OLYMPIA — One day in the not-too-distant future, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport will be maxed-out for passengers and cargo.

But the number of planes bound for Puget Sound will continue to rise. Where will they land?

It’s the question the new Commercial Aviation Coordinating Commission will spend the next two years trying to answer. It is tasked with siting a new primary airport and developing a timeline to get it built by 2040.

They don’t have to settle on a site for one large new airport. They could, under the law that created the panel, recommend expanding operations.

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With Sea-Tac nearly maxed out, where to land a new airport? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2019 OP
The terminals are getting huge, but no more runways RainCaster Nov 2019 #1

RainCaster

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1. The terminals are getting huge, but no more runways
Mon Nov 4, 2019, 10:57 PM
Nov 2019

So how is SeaTac going to fill up all those new jetways? There's no room for another runway.

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