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Sea-Tac Airport sees record-setting travel over holiday weekend

Jul 9, 2025, 6:54 AM

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Long lines for at Sea-Tac Airport. (Photo courtesy of 成人X站 7)

(Photo courtesy of 成人X站 7)

This year is proving to be a busy one for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Monday was the fifth busiest day ever. The Port of Seattle reported that the TSA screened more than 75,000 people at security checkpoints.

Sunday ranked seventh in the airport鈥檚 history.



June 22 of this year is still the top record, with 75,429 screened prior to departure.

Here鈥檚 a look at the top ten:

  1. June 22, 2025: 75,429
  2. August 18, 2024: 75,410
  3. August 11, 2024: 75,407
  4. June 23, 2025: 聽75,298
  5. July 7, 2025: 75,007
  6. June 19, 2025: 74,478
  7. July 6, 2025: 聽74,468
  8. June 27, 2025: 73,914
  9. June 15, 2025: 73,711
  10. July 24, 2023: 73,651

Seven of the top 10 busiest days have now come this year.

Despite the volume of passengers over the Fourth of July holiday, the Port of Seattle stated that 90% made it through TSA checkpoints in 20 minutes or less, and 92% made it in less than 30 minutes.

聽SEA Airport opened its new Checkpoint 1 last month with six lanes.



Last year, they opened two more lanes to each of Checkpoints 3 and 4 ahead of summertime.

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