Suspicious package investigation causes over 3 hour delay at Sea-Tac Airport

A suspicious bundle investigation shut down elements of Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport for greater than three hours Sunday night, inflicting departing passengers to overlook flights.

Port of Seattle officers say untagged, unattended baggage within the Alaska Airways ticketing space led to the investigation.

Officers say there was by no means a direct risk, however out of “an abundance of warning” port police shut down the ticketing areas on the north facet of the airport and the higher departures drive.

The bomb squad got here in and, after rendering the bundle protected with a loud blast, finally found the bag contained scuba and fishing gear.

The shutdown had cascading results on air vacationers, a lot of whom have been caught in visitors jams approaching the airport with all autos squeezing into the decrease arrivals drive.

With out entry to their ticket counters, brokers for Alaska Airways, SEA’s largest tenant, arrange makeshift check-in areas on the south finish of the terminal.

Verify-in strains have been lengthy, as have been TSA safety strains as a result of the northern checkpoints have been closed.

With so many vacationers squeezed into the southern screening strains, wait instances exceeded 75 minutes.

Alaska Airways officers stated an air visitors management floor cease delayed a couple of dozen of their flights.

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