Also they dumped about a thousand international passengers transferring to domestic flights into a single security line with no TSA precheck and one security station open.
I tried to be chill but I was stuck behind five world-touring college kids bickering over which country they went to was the most “spiritual” and I can’t see because my eyes rolled permanently back into my head.
I was going to say “college girls” because that would be accurate but it would probably be misinterpreted as disdainful of women in the general rather than in the specific.
I’ve been back in the country two hours and I can feel the warm feelings towards humanity engendered by my trip to Iceland chilling like a kitten in an industrial freezer
breathe, ken
remember that YOU have not been convicted of 34 felonies. you’re just a simple doofus trying to function in a complex world full of shitty people + rotten shark ‘food’.
I feel this pain - my return from my Iceland vacation was four hours in a customs line in the Newark airport. Such lovely warm feelings.....stomped to death so quickly.
Felt like this my first time after staying in the beautiful Rocky Mountains on vaca, and I really loathed going back to the everyday shitty world & its horrible people populating it.
Something like this happened to me going through Pearson, once, except it was a 747 from Florida and highschool kids, none of whom were able to use the automatic customs booths to validate their passports.
Literal hell.
TSA staff at SEA screaming at old lady about her shoes and threatening a ban her forever was sufficient to not fly there again. That was about 30 years ago.
Why do US airports ever mix returning and departing passengers in the same space? And then the whole situation you’ve experienced. Got stranded in Newark one time because of that nonsense.
I flew to Europe from SEA several times during the 80s, but always flew back to ANC (I live in Juneau, about halfway between ANC & SEA) because customs lines were shorter and Alaskan US Customs folks are much friendlier.
I asked the TSA person, where is Pre check? They said "you have to go this way. " I said, "well I could just exit international and then walk out and back in the front to the local flight with pre check". They just looked at me and said "well yes."
We came back from London through SeaTac last week and had to transfer to a domestic flight and had *exactly* the same experience. So it’s not just bad timing. It’s what they do.
We live in Olympia, and have a grandchild in Santa Rosa (which has a NICE little airport full of Charles Schultz art) and after one arrival at SeaTac have vowed to fly in and out of Portland and eat the extra ground miles. I used to feel like SeaTac was home, since I first flew out in 1969; not now.
SeaTac also has the worst restrooms I've ever experienced outside of a port-a-potty in an underfunded state park. Half the stalls are clogged and there's always water everywhere.
