Originally Posted by
ctporter
When you get up on Sunday am, check google maps traffic to see if departures is so busy the red lines are now black. If that is the case (as it was today) look at being dropped off at arrivals. The other thing to consider is that if departures is that crowded you should anticipate that TSA lanes will be crowded as well and allow some extra time for that.
Just an update on what we eventually did. We ended up booking a room at the Hyatt Olive 8 on Saturday and the concierge scheduled a car to pick us up at 5:30am. We arrived at SEA at 5:50 and there was a little bit of a backup at the Departures level so asked to be dropped off at Arrivals. Got right out, went upstairs and went outside to curbside check-in since the Alaska Air counters had a pretty decent size line. Just a brief wait at curbside and we were on our way to TSA Pre-Check which had a slight wait, but nothing bad. By 6:10 we were on the train to the N Terminal. All-in-all, it was pretty smooth! Maybe we just got lucky!
