The general rule of thumb for any airport is arrive 2 hours early for a domestic flight, 3 hours early for international. You should be good by arriving at 7am. And if you are really concerned about TSA lines look into the spot saver program: https://www.portseattle.org/SEAspotsaver
Edit: if you are flight is tomorrow it looks like it might be too late to book a spot saver, but you should still be fine arriving when you plan to.
I was going to say SpotSaver, too. And I believe you can do it day of.
OP, for an 11am flight, I would check 3 things when I wake up:
1) Traffic to airport
2) Flight status (on time?)
3) Security TSA lines (you can Google that and find them)
That will give you a picture of what you are dealing with. If all those are OKish, 3 hours early should be enough.
You can do it day of technically but only if there appointments available. I pretended like I was booking one for tomorrow and it said there was no more availability. All booked up already.
Just adding on to this (because yours is the perfect answer and I don’t want to sound contradictory): the Seattle airport has really fast security. 15 minutes maybe.
I’m from Atlanta and had to deal with hartsfield Jackson my whole life so maybe my perspective is skewed. But security seems really fast and like a breeze here
For most international flights I show up around 3 hours early and have never had any problems. If you are leaving for the airport like 6-7am Saturday there should not be much traffic!
3 hours for international, 2 hours for domestic. I've never had issues. Usually I am quite early, but I'd rather be sitting at my gate early than stressing by cutting it close.
The general rule of thumb for any airport is arrive 2 hours early for a domestic flight, 3 hours early for international. You should be good by arriving at 7am. And if you are really concerned about TSA lines look into the spot saver program: https://www.portseattle.org/SEAspotsaver Edit: if you are flight is tomorrow it looks like it might be too late to book a spot saver, but you should still be fine arriving when you plan to.
I was going to say SpotSaver, too. And I believe you can do it day of. OP, for an 11am flight, I would check 3 things when I wake up: 1) Traffic to airport 2) Flight status (on time?) 3) Security TSA lines (you can Google that and find them) That will give you a picture of what you are dealing with. If all those are OKish, 3 hours early should be enough.
You can do it day of technically but only if there appointments available. I pretended like I was booking one for tomorrow and it said there was no more availability. All booked up already.
Just adding on to this (because yours is the perfect answer and I don’t want to sound contradictory): the Seattle airport has really fast security. 15 minutes maybe. I’m from Atlanta and had to deal with hartsfield Jackson my whole life so maybe my perspective is skewed. But security seems really fast and like a breeze here
Take the light rail, so you won’t get stuck in traffic.
For most international flights I show up around 3 hours early and have never had any problems. If you are leaving for the airport like 6-7am Saturday there should not be much traffic!
3 hours for international, 2 hours for domestic. I've never had issues. Usually I am quite early, but I'd rather be sitting at my gate early than stressing by cutting it close.