Inefficient new parking structure at Sea-Tac

According to a recent news release from the Port of Seattle about the new parking structure at Sea-Tac Airport, some 3,000 people will be required to operate it !  Rather inefficient.  Here's the lead sentence from the news release.

(Seattle - July 14, 2010) - Only one year after re-starting the project due to the bad economy, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport's new Rental Car Facility celebrated it's [sic] topping off today with the help of one of the four tower cranes on-site to signal the halfway point of a project creating an estimated 3,000 jobs. 

The new garage will have about 3,200 spaces, according to the Port's news release.  So this works out to almost one employee per space.  Wow, what service !  Why don't we believe any of this?

No, It's not Boeing Field. Mystery solved.

Data from Boeing Field (King County International Airport) received today show that there are no super-noisy night-time flights in or out of that facility.  

In our posts on 13 & 14 April, we reported that at Sea-Tac Airport there is a consistent pattern of very noisy aircraft, operated by FedEx, arriving & departing in the time frame, midnight to 6 a.m.   The data covered the period 15 March through 5 April, which we believe is reasonably representative.   The "guilty" aircraft are DC-10s & MD-11s.  At our request, Boeing Field supplied the data for night-time operations there for the same time frame.  Not a single DC-10 or MD-11.  No planes operating during that hours that would be considered particularly noisy.  

Renton has told us that they have essentially NO night-time operations, & absolutely no heavy noisy aircraft.

The mystery of the noisy flights is solved.  Case closed.  FedEx is responsible.

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