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Sea-Tac Airport

Carrying the freight

Wed, Sep 7, 12:46 p.m.

By Stephen H. Dunphy

With its new 747-8F, Boeing takes the lead in the cargo jet business, with a monopoly in the production of wide-bodied freighters.

What if Seattle's rain were snow?

Wed, Jan 26, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

We'd be buried in the stuff, instead of bare and increasingly unlikely to see any more big snowfalls this year.

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Holiday travel through Sea-Tac: Dealing with scans, wifi, and the rest

Tue, Nov 23, 2 a.m.

By Skip Ferderber

Some helpful hints on scans, patdowns, free wifi, and useful apps.

Verizon joining Sprint, T-Mobile in Seattle's 4G swim

Sat, Oct 16, 6 a.m.

By Skip Ferderber

With Sprint and T-Mobile 4G phones already in customers’ hands, Verizon will begin its 4G foray here by year’s end.

Signs point to a shaky tourism season in Washington state

Mon, Jun 7, 2 a.m.

By Ronald Holden

International visitors account for a quarter of Seattle's tourism revenue, but the dollar's strength against the Euro is keeping many of them home.

RBI: Riders boarded intelligently

Wed, May 26, 2 a.m.

By Bob Simmons

Sometimes an airline has to make choices among baseball fans.

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Humor: A foolproof way to nab terrorists

Sun, Jan 10, 3 p.m.

By Steve Clifford

Instead of pestering me at the airport about my titanium hip, just ask Who played third base for the 1986 Mariners? Or Name the man who peddled Charmin.

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War on Christmas '09

Fri, Dec 11, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Yes, Virginia, call the bomb squad.

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Joy ride

Wed, Jul 22, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

The new light rail line opens up new ways to see the city, and brings visibility to long-neglected and fascinating parts of Seattle.

How to drink your favorite wine on a plane

Tue, Jan 6, 9:19 p.m.

By Harris Meyer

Yes, you can bring your own bottle along, says a wine connoisseur.

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The Gravy Train to nowhere?

Thu, Dec 4, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

With Obama's new New Deal gaining momentum, let's remain skeptical of big projects that are touted as economic saviors. States like ours may be desperate, but a boondoggle is still a boondoggle.

Up yours, Virginia

Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.

The high cost of an empty taxicab

Mon, Oct 6, midnight

By Peter Lewis

Taxis traveling between Sea-Tac Airport and Seattle without passengers mean less revenue for the cabs, and fuel burned senselessly. Solving the problem would require coordinated policy changes by city officials, the mayor, and the Port of Seattle, and it's not clear that will happen anytime soon.

Fly now, pay dearly later

Mon, Sep 15, 4 a.m.

By David Brewster

Short-term, Boeing benefits from airlines' desperate need for more fuel-efficient planes. That's one reason the order book is fat and the International Association of Machinists thinks this is a good time to strike. (And it's why the strike, in the words of Mike Parks of Marple's Pacific Northwest Letter, "could be a very long one.") Looking at this demand, both Boeing and the state economic forecasters see continued, booming growth for the airplane manufacturer, at least through 2011. But there are two big problems.

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The freaky economics of a ride to Sea-Tac Airport

Thu, Sep 11, 3 a.m.

By Peter Lewis

Because of fuel prices and out-of-sync regulatory bodies, it's actually cheaper right now to take a taxicab to or from Sea-Tac Airport than a shared van, which until recently was always the cheaper choice. But cab fares, too, will be going up, on Oct. 1. Here's how airport transportation pricing works.