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Jul 10, 2013 | 1:16 pm

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Originally Posted by UAPremierExec

Im peeved that a friend in dispatch called the gate to let her know she had a runner and was on the tram... but anyway.. 820pm door close would have meant me on the plane and still on time.

I would be peeved at myself for not showing up at SEA > 30 minutes before flight departure. I am more than willing to cut things tight myself (since SEA is home, I have my timings down pretty tight- no checked luggage and TSA Pre√), but if you're just showing up at the airport less than 30 minutes before departure, you have nobody to blame but yourself- one messed up checkpoint or what-have-you and you're missing a flight. SEA is pretty good compared to a lot of other places, but it's not BUR or LGB.

And yeah, SEA TSA Pre√ is closed by 8 pm. There have been times around then where the elite line for the Central Terminal TSA checkpoint is longer than the non-elite ones.

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