Posted by unregistered user at 5/23/08 1:21 p.m.

Great news. Its good to see SEATAC finally employ technology to provide a solution other big airports ( FRA for example) have been using for at least two decades.

Now if they can just direct cars properly to the airline terminals you are trying to use.. I still seem to end up at the opposite end of the terminal half the time.

Posted by unregistered user at 5/23/08 1:34 p.m.

I still wonder WHY the rental car companies got the sweetheart deal and some of us have suffer when there is no parking available? SeaTac is the only airport I know that doesn't have off-site rental car facilities and shuttle buses. Even much smaller airports have off-site rental car stations. Just another Port of Seattle 'deal' at the tax payers' expense. Two floors! Who brokered that deal?

Posted by ajMM at 5/23/08 2:05 p.m.

uu - the Port is building a new off-site rental car facility.

Posted by unregistered user at 5/23/08 7:57 p.m.

ajMM - Yes, years after the rental car agencies have reaped the benefits and, no doubt, being built under some 'Sweetheart' of a contract to some Port insider's brother's company. Trust: hard to have right now.

Posted by Grnlake at 5/24/08 8:15 p.m.

How cool.

Now if we could get the street parking in the city to talk to our GPS devices in our cars... how cool would that be?

Posted by unregistered user at 5/26/08 12:07 p.m.

Hate to be contrarian, but one of Sea-Tac's great features to visitors is that you don't have to go offsite for a major car rental, thereby saving yourself at least half an hour. Ever been to SFO where the car rental facility seems about ten miles away? Ever returned a car there, or in LA, and therefore had to get to the airport much earlier?

At the Phoenix Airport I deliberately rent from Budget because I can get and return a car inside the airport, whereas with Hertz I have to do the offsite two-step.

Posted by unregistered user at 6/10/08 9:36 p.m.

Seattle should take note of what is used at the Baltimore Maryland airport (BWI) - it tells you which parking spot is available by the green or red light above the stall in addition to the the number of open spaces on the floor and row. How cool is that? However, I did not like the offsite car rental facility because it was quite a bit aways from the airport. I had to adjust my schedule with 1-2 hr buffer to account for the wait/drive/shuttle time to/from the rental facility.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/1/08 6:58 a.m.

At least at SeaTac you can get your car rental without walking a 1/4-1/2 mile. Believe it or not but there are a few airports with off-site parking and no shuttles, Lihue for instance. Maybe it's only the smaller ones, but it's still not acceptable. If you think that the car rentals got a sweetheart of a deal at SeaTac, remember that you are part of the solution and needed to stay informed and speak out earlier.

Posted by unregistered user at 7/9/08 6:09 p.m.

It's a good idea but it's always far too expensive. I always find it best to use companies that have parking near to the airport like adviceaustralia.com/cheap-airport-parkin
g-guide/. They usually have an on demand bus service that will take you to the terminal. Often it takes the same amount of time to get to the check in desk as when you park actually at the airport.