SEA will get new TPE route and celebrates seventy fifth anniversary : AirlineReporter
Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) celebrated its seventy fifth anniversary on July 9, 2024, adopted by welcoming its fifth new worldwide route this yr, with China Airways’ Taipei (TPE)-Seattle route just some days afterward July 14, utilizing an Airbus A350-900.
The schedule is as follows:
SEA commenced flight operations on July 9, 1949. Issues have been loads totally different again then – most people was allowed on the ramp to view the plane, and the terminal was tiny in comparison with what it’s turn into.
In 1949, the airport had eight gates and served 130,549 passengers that yr. Quick-forward to 2024, and SEA has 89 gates and serves a mean of 140,000 passengers each single day.
Extra attention-grabbing factoids: SEA’s first worldwide service was with Japan Airways in 1959. Right now, there are 25 worldwide carriers serving 33 international locations.
Which properly leads us again to … airplanes!
China Airways Cargo has lengthy served Seattle; the current inaugural passenger flight is the airline’s sixth North American vacation spot, and its debut for passenger service to the U.S. Pacific Northwest.
China Airways is the third airline to supply direct service to Taipei, competing for passengers with Delta Air Strains and EVA Air.
It’s all the time a improbable expertise to get out onto the ramp for an plane arrival, particularly an inaugural.
And congratulations to SEA for 75 profitable years!
