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When is Seattle security busiest? 6 to 10 every morning.

Calmest around 5 pm. Choose any hour on the board.

People screened per hour at SEA checkpoints, by weekday and hour; choose a cell to read it
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People screened per hour at SEA checkpoints, by weekday and hour; choose a cell to read it
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Friday, 7 am

4,660

people screened, 8-week average.

Which checkpoint is busiest? SCP 3 and SCP 6, by 10 am.

SCP IAF peaks at 1 pm.

Security counts,

  • SCP 3

    10 am

    1,170 screened

  • SCP 6

    7 am

    940 screened

  • SCP 4

    9 am

    680 screened

  • SCP 5

    8 am

    840 screened

  • SCP 1

    10 am

    590 screened

  • SCP IAF

    1 pm

    280 screened

  • SCP 2

    10 am

    240 screened

Which departures leave on time? Leave in the morning.

5 am: 93% left on time. 8 pm: 72%.

Flight records,

Share of SEA departures leaving less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour
DepartsBarLeft on time
5 am93%
6 am92%
7 am88%
8 am87%
9 am83%
10 am77%
11 am72%
12 pm76%
1 pm75%
2 pm76%
3 pm76%
4 pm76%
5 pm75%
6 pm75%
7 pm76%
8 pm72%
9 pm76%
10 pm75%
11 pm77%

Which airline runs on time here? Delta and United lead.

Alaska flies 56% of SEA departures and landed on time 79% of the time.

Flight records,

  1. Delta 51,188 flights, 0.9% cancelled 82%
  2. United 9,557 flights, 0.8% cancelled 80%
  3. Alaska 103,514 flights, 1.0% cancelled 79%
  4. American 8,647 flights, 1.4% cancelled 78%
  5. Southwest 8,194 flights, 0.4% cancelled 68%

Not ranked, under ten flights a day: Frontier 74% of 1,397, Hawaiian 65% of 612, JetBlue 51% of 413.

Where do SEA flights land late? San Francisco, Anchorage, Las Vegas.

Lowest on-time rates of the 8 busiest.

Flight records,

ToFlightsOn time
LAX Los Angeles7,54481%
PHX Phoenix7,20577%
SFO San Francisco6,82259%
ANC Anchorage6,64176%
PDX Portland6,52481%
DEN Denver6,33377%
GEG Spokane6,15783%
LAS Las Vegas5,62077%