Capitol Hill, this might be our happiest holiday travel season… ever. By way of fellow community news site B-Town Blog covering lovely Burien, CHS has learned that we’ll all get a great present from Uncle Google this year — free wireless Internet at Sea-Tac:
When you’re traveling this holiday season, you can enjoy free WiFi at 47 participating airports and on every Virgin America flight. Just bring a WiFi-enabled laptop or mobile device and stay connected to family and friends for free while you travel now through January 15, 2010.
We also talked to Bruce Gray of Sound Transit about the start of light rail airport service which is scheduled to happen ‘late in 2009’ according to the airport link project page. Gray says the announcement on the start of service will come later this week and said the trains will be continuing through to the Sea-Tac stop “in time for the holidays.” “Which holidays?” CHS asked. Just wanted to be sure. Gray said we’ll find out this week.
And in the fine print:
“Additionally, as a result of this project, Burbank and Seattle airports will begin offering airport-wide free Wi-Fi indefinitely.”
Well, indefinitely is not (yet) forever, but it’s INDEFINITELY!
I was hoping to be able to ride light rail home from the airport; now it looks as though I’ll be able to ride it TO the airport as well. I rode light rail home last time despite having to take the shuttle bus, and it was much nicer than taking the 194. Aside from the bus usually being overcrowded, the train’s route is much more scenic.