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The Five Spot: 5 reasons not to mind getting hauled off a plane at Sea-Tac

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Long-ago TWA flight attendants give their most cheerful five-spot salutes. Those were the good old days, before overbooked seats and passengers being physically “reaccommodated” against their will.
Long-ago TWA flight attendants give their most cheerful five-spot salutes. Those were the good old days, before overbooked seats and passengers being physically “reaccommodated” against their will.

Five reasons why Sea-Tac Airport would be a great place to be forcibly bumped from a flight.

 

1 This is the high-tech Puget Sound region. You won’t get better-quality passenger recordings of your “reaccommodation” anywhere else.

 

2 On the concourse, you’ll find no end of massage chairs and Starbucks to help recover after being dragged from your United flight.

 

3 If you fly Alaska, chief football officer Russell Wilson will escort you from your seat, and he’s a really polite guy.

 

4 You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a civil-rights lawyer around here.

 

5 Extra time to stay in town for a Mariners game, where you can see what a real beatdown looks like.

This story was originally published April 16, 2017 at 4:22 PM with the headline "The Five Spot: 5 reasons not to mind getting hauled off a plane at Sea-Tac."

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