Seattle Airport

✅ Trip Verified | What an absurdly terrible airport! There’s absolutely no reason on a non-holiday Monday afternoon to have a 1.5 hour wait in security. The airport knows how many flights and people to expect, and they should hire enough people to facilitate people getting through security in a reasonable time. Instead, there are very few staff around to help and direct (and the ones that are just blindly tell you to go to the next checkpoint because it’s “quicker,” when it’s not). The TSA agents are rude and defensive. One was giving me a dirty look and she said because I had given her one. Well, yes, I just waited in a 1.5 hour line for no reason, did she? She then went on that it’s my fault I was late (when I arrived almost 2 hours before my domestic flight). They also flag and pull lots of luggage from the line—but then there’s no one to check that flagged luggage and you have to wait another 10 minutes while your bags just sit there. I will avoid Seattle airport at all costs!

✅ Trip Verified | Long walk from gate to exit. We then connected on to the Light rail to downtown Seattle and it was pretty hard to find out where to go. If you are connecting to the light rail, it is inside the terminal, not outside There didn't appear to be long lines anywhere. There seemed to be tons of places to shop and lots of restaurants.

Not Verified | I entered Seattle on a Virgin flight on Thursday 30th May. I headed for Passport Control and was told to stop and wait in a corridor to the Passport area. I waited and waited for 90 minutes along with several other people , most of whom complained to the staff on duty after an hour. Announcements came over the intercomms that the passport control area was very full and they were trying their best to clear the backlog. The area where we were queueing was a corridor less than four metres wide , with at least 50 to sixty other people off the same flight. This area was very hot and became unsafe, so much so that we were offered free water whilst we waited. Several other planes arrived and putting it bluntly we were discriminated against. Although we had the necessary ESTA documentation to enter the States we along with many other passengers had to endure watching passengers rush right past us and enter the passport area to be processed whilst we had to wait in line. Many of those waiting missed onward flights thanks to this policy. After 90 minutes (roughly) we were allowed into the processing area. 30 plus finger printing machines were there for us to use. So after a nine hour flight and ninety minutes waiting in a very hot area we were given the task of taking our own finger prints . Now I understand English perfectly and read the instructions perfectly, but would the machine take my prints ? ….NO. I then checked the screen below where my fingers had been, the finger plate was dirty , greasy and covered in what I assumed was sweat. I pointed this out to an attendant. There were just two helpers at the time trying to control this area and barking at the passengers. Two helpers for 30 dirty fingerprinting plates and people from all over the world not understanding the instructions walking around puzzled, bewildered and disenchanted . So wondering what germs or micro biological virus I would pick up from this experience I transferred to a different machine. Eventually I obtained a piece of paper with a large “X” across it. I had failed my first test to get into the USA, now I was being barked at again and being ordered to another queue about two and half hours after my landing in the United States. After three hours I was given the all clear by a United States Customs Officer in a little booth, with his own finger printing machine that eventually, (although just as unclean as the previous one) agreed to read my finger tips ! This was a very bad experience. Despite many complaints by my fellow passengers, many of whom were fellow Brits, we all felt we were discriminated against. The young customs officer who eventually allowed us in to the United States stated “We are getting new machinery soon”. This experience which I can prove beyond doubt will mean I will never travel through Seattle again. I found the people nasty, barking at us, talking to us like we were thick and shepherding us around like sheep. I assume that anybody who lives in Seattle or works there would also be disgusted if they saw how people visiting their city for the first time ever were treated.

❎ Not Verified | I entered Seattle on a Virgin flight on Thursday 30th May. I headed for Passport Control and was told to stop and wait in a corridor to the Passport area. I waited and waited for 90 minutes along with several other people, most of whom complained to the staff on duty within an hour. Announcements came over the intercomms that the passport control area was very full and they were trying their best to clear the backlog. The area where we were queueing was a corridor less than four metres wide, with at least 50 to sixty other people off the same flight. This area was very hot and became unsafe, so much so that we were offered free water whilst we waited. Several other planes and putting it bluntly we were discriminated against. Although we had the necessary ESTA documentation to enter the States we along with many other passengers had to endure watching passengers rush right past us and enter the passport area to be processed whilst we had to wait in line. Many of those waiting missed onward flights thanks to this policy. After 90 minutes (roughly) we were allowed into the processing area. 30 plus finger printing machines were there for us to use. So after a nine-hour flight, ninety minutes waiting in a very hot area we were given the task of taking our own fingerprints. Now I understand English perfectly and read the instructions perfectly, but would the machine take my prints - no. I then checked the screen below where my fingers had been, it was dirty, greasy and covered in what I assumed was sweat. I pointed this out to an attendant. There were just two helpers at the time trying to control this area and barking at the passengers. Two helpers for 30 dirty fingerprinting plates and people from all over the world not understanding the instructions walking around puzzled, bewildered and disenchanted. So wondering what germs or microbiological virus I would pick up from this experience I transferred to a different machine. Eventually, I obtained a piece of paper with a large “X” across it. I had failed my first test to get into the USA, now I was being barked at again being ordered to another queue about two and a half hours after my landing in the United States. After three hours I was given the all clear by a United States Customs Officer in a little booth, with his own fingerprinting machine that eventually, although just as unclean as the previous one agreed to read my fingertips! This was a very bad experience. Despite many complaints by my fellow passengers, many of whom were fellow Brits, we were discriminated against. The young customs officer who eventually allowed us into the United States stated: “We are getting new machinery soon”. This experience which I can prove beyond doubt will mean I will never travel through Seattle again. I found the people nasty, barking at us, talking to us like we were thick and shepherding us around like sheep. I assume that anybody who lives in Seattle or works there would also be disgusted if they saw how people visiting their city for the first time ever were treated.

Not Verified | Extremely long wait time at immigration (more than 3 hours today). I can understand it is not possible to expand the immigration area in current building however at least ensure that all immigration kiosks are staffed. Today, I saw half of the kiosks were not manned by the immigration officials directly doubling the wait time!

✅ Trip Verified | This airport is horrible. Food was terribly expensive and awful. They were sandwiches that they would serve in jail and cost tons of money. The bathrooms were abominable. Filthy toilet seats, liquor bottles in the tampon disposal, water all over the floor. The trash was over flowing, there is no soap. I thought it was one particular bathroom but I’ve visited two or three and they were all the same here.

Not Verified | Avoid this airport! Terrible selection of sit-down restaurants for transits alomg with the lack of other ammenities i.e. day lounges etc. you expect to see in an "International" airport. I do 50k miles a year but this is first (and last) time I have had to stop here.

✅ Trip Verified | Appalling incompetence - waiting an hour so far in the air bridge as “passport control is too crowded”. 50 minutes in they broadcast that "as you can imagine processing several hundred people is challenging" without a hint of irony despite pretty much every other airport managing it all day everyday. Previously I entered the US via other airports so had never experienced immigration here. Baggage handling is the worst I have experienced anywhere- I generally reach the baggage area before they even confirm what carousel it will come on.

Not Verified | Avoid this airport if you are travelling on an ESTA, we’ve have been inline for passport control for 2 hours and 10 minutes and still at least 30 minutes away from getting our documents/passports approved.

Not Verified | I've been to better run, cleaner airports in rural Africa. The passport control lines are usually an hour at least for visitors because as the staff repeated over and over, "US citizens get priority". Which would be fine if the passport control kiosks for hundreds of international visitors were in any way adequate. I've been living here and traveling back and forth for three years. As America's "8th busiest airport", they need to join the rest of us in 2019 and equip their arrivals better. This is pathetic, unnecessary and embarrassing.