(via Arthur Marriott):

“Seems there’s an issue with Southwest Airlines moving to Boeing Field that hasn’t yet entered the public discussion thereof. (Of course, there wasn’t any public discussion of this until Tuesday, was there?)

The final approach to Boeing Field goes right over the top of Magnolia. I grew up there, and was in the sixth grade when Sea-Tac was undergoing one of its previous makeovers, and the major carriers had to use Boeing Field temporarily. Granted, this was in the age of noisier “first-generation” jets, but the noise was to say the least obnoxious.

I rather doubt that it would be easy to ameliorate the problem by coming in at higher altitudes either, because the Boeing approach actually passes UNDERNEATH the Sea-Tac approach lanes over Elliott Bay and the southern part of downtown.”

That just might scuttle the whole thang, ya know. If Seattle politics is anything, it’s politics by demographic marketing. We can ask Georgetown and Beacon Hill to put up with anything, but to inconvenience the stately homes of Magnolia and their upper-income denizens? Never!