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Delta’s Bigger and Better Sky Club Opens at Sea-Tac

 

(From left) Mark Reis, Managing Director, Sea-Tac Airport; Stephen Caldwell, Delta Air Lines, GM Corporate Real Estate; Steve Sear, Delta Air Lines, VP Sales; John Creighton, Port of Seattle Commissioner; Roy Tschumi, Delta Air Lines Sea-Tac Station Manager (Photo: Port of Seattle/Don Wilson)

Delta is listening to you, harried, Platinum-Amex-bearing passengers. You said the converted Northwest WorldClub lounge there in Sea-Tac’s South Satellite was too small. Where were the showers? Worst coffee ever.

So Delta invested an estimated $6 to $8 million on an upgrade. The new club, located on the roof of the South Satellite, now offers Delta passengers nearly 8,300-square-feet of elbow room, complete with a full wall of windows to take in the view of Mount Rainier. (Now meaning today, August 31, 2011.)

View of Mount Rainier from Sea-Tac's third runway (Photo: MvB)

“For international passengers traveling to or through Seattle,” Delta wants you to know, “the club also offers shower suites and a recharge zone with comfortable lounge chairs.” Presumably the hours of operation are the same: 5:30 a.m. until 12:30 a.m. And the free Wi-Fi still flows like water. Passengers with a Platinum Amex get in free.

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Publisher & Editor in Chief [twitter] MvB moved to Seattle in 1987 to attend Seattle University, and his affection for things with Seattle in the name is as yet undiminished. Earlier incarnations have seen him wearing marketing hats at Seattle Opera and the San Francisco Examiner. He wrote for Seattlest from 2005-09, becoming arts editor and editor-in-chief before leaving to found The SunBreak in September 2009.