{"id":26853,"date":"2007-05-15T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/05\/15\/get-sea-tac-flight-information-including-gate-and-baggage-claim-via-email\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T10:00:01","slug":"get-sea-tac-flight-information-including-gate-and-baggage-claim-via-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070515-01\/?p=26853","title":{"rendered":"Get Sea-Tac flight information (including gate and baggage claim) via email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of flight status sites out there. (My favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/flightaware.com\/\">FlightAware<\/a> because it&#8217;s the geekiest of them.) Many of them will send you email alerts when flight information changes, but <a href=\"http:\/\/hosting.portseattle.org\/fids\/FlightInfo.aspx\"> the one from the Port of Seattle<\/a> is the only one I know of that will also tell you when the arrival gate and baggage claim carousel number change, which is handy when you&#8217;re picking up someone at the airport. (Main entry page <a href=\"http:\/\/hosting.portseattle.org\/fids\/\"> here<\/a>.)\n A useful site if you&#8217;re departing from the airport is the TSA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/waittime.tsa.dhs.gov\/\"> Security Checkpoint Wait Times<\/a> site, which gives you estimates of wait times based on data collected in the most recent few weeks.<\/p>\n<p> When you arrive at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portseattle.org\/seatac\/\"> Seattle-Tacoma International Airport<\/a>, a friendly voice welcomes you via a pre-recorded message. Historically, the voice has been that of the mayor of the city of Seattle, but a few years ago, it changed to that of the President of the Port Commission. I don&#8217;t know what prompted the change, but I guess some sort of gentleman&#8217;s agreement fell apart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are lots of flight status sites out there. (My favorite is FlightAware because it&#8217;s the geekiest of them.) Many of them will send you email alerts when flight information changes, but the one from the Port of Seattle is the only one I know of that will also tell you when the arrival gate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-26853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There are lots of flight status sites out there. (My favorite is FlightAware because it&#8217;s the geekiest of them.) Many of them will send you email alerts when flight information changes, but the one from the Port of Seattle is the only one I know of that will also tell you when the arrival gate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}