Enjoy this unedited landing (to the south) into SeaTac Airport from downwind leg, to base leg, to final and then waiting to cross both 16 Center and 16 Left, all in 4k!
Real time ATC communications are included for this flight and related traffic, including the four takeoffs we had to wait for before crossing the runway. ATC comms include Arrival, Tower 16R, and Tower 16C & 16L.
Closed captions/subtitles are available for the ATC communications.
See some great views while cruising over the Seattle/Bellevue area and while sitting in the middle of the runways! There are excellent birds eye views of Seattle, Puget Sound, Lake Washington, Bellevue, Mercer Island, Kirkland, Boeing Field, Boeing Delivery, SeaTac Airport, and all of the surrounding neighborhoods. Also see takeoffs from SeaTac up close!
Highlights and timestamps are below.
This was Alaska Airlines flight 211 from Cancun to Seattle (hence the South Satellite arrival for international flights / immigration).
Alaska Airlines pretty much rules the Seattle market at this point with over 50% of all traffic in and out of SeaTac. Delta is second with about 23% of traffic, followed by United and Southwest, both of which are at about 6%.
Seattle Tacoma International Airport, aka SeaTac, handled 51.8 million passengers in 2019, ranking it #8 in the United States and #31 in the world.
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00:00 SeaTac Airport from 10,000 feet+
00:35 Boeing Field in the distance
01:21 Seattle and Puget Sound in the distance
02:04 ATC clearance to 6000 and then 5000
02:48 ATC turn left onto base leg
03:38 ATC general localizer 16R, airport off left wing
05:10 Lake Washington with Kirkland and Bellevue, Cascade mountain range in distance
05:32 University of Washington and Husky Stadium
06:38 Mercer Island in middle of Lake Washington
06:54 ATC arrival handoff to tower
07:18 ATC tower clearance to land
07:48 Boeing field directly below; Boeing flight delivery and parked 737 MAX's
10:06 ATC hold short 16C; see Alaska Airlines 737 takeoff on parallel runway (16L)
10:46 Stewardess - Welcome to Seattle
11:56 ATC AS97 T/O clearance, AS211 clearance and crossing runway 16C [34C] (hold short 16L)
12:43 Great view of Alaska Airlines flight 97 taking off
13:04 ATC multiple clearances/comms
13:52 Alaska Airlines flight 1426 taking off
14:39 Skywest 3530 taking off
15:42 Skywest 3788 taking off; another Alaska plane joins us waiting to cross runway 16L
16:08 ATC clearance and crossing of runway 16L (finally!) - four planes crossing at same time
17:44 Pulling into South Satellite and gate
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