Originally Posted by
jjmadison
For further reference, the
forthcoming SEA lounge is 15,800 sq ft.
Obviously, Alaska has many more flights out of SEA than SFO. I'd guess 3x-4x more? Then again, Alaska has more than one lounge at SEA.
I searched for a source on # of daily AS flights from each airport but couldn't find that. If anyone has that, please post.
The relevant metric is passengers. Last year AS + QX handled 21.5 million at SEA and 4.7 million at SFO (AS only; QX should be rounding error there), so about 4.5x more. My guess is that the ratio of frequent fliers (SEA:SFO) would be even higher since AS has a dominant position at SEA and a not dominant position (to put it kindly) at SFO. But doesn't SEA have multiple AS lounges? Nevertheless, it seems unlikely that the square footage of all of them combined will exceed 38,000 sq ft.