Accessibility guides

Getting through SEA with a disability or reduced mobility: how to arrange wheelchair assistance, accessible parking, quiet rooms and support for hidden disabilities where the airport offers it. The guides explain what to request and when, and the accessibility page lists where the airport places each service.

• Getting around SEA with reduced mobility

  Call Prospect at (206) 246-1550 for free wheelchair help to ticketing. Your airline covers the gate.

  • Before you set out
  • Arriving by car, garage or Link
  • Through security and out to your gate
  • Landing and choosing a ride out
  • Sources
• Hidden disabilities at SEA: what the airport offers and how to get it

  SEA hands out free Sunflower lanyards at three desks, keeps two sensory rooms open from 4 a.m. to midnight, and links to TSA Cares. Where each is and how to ask.

  • Plan the parts that need another person
  • Pick up a lanyard before the checkpoint, or after it
  • Take a break after security
• Medical help at Seattle airport: emergencies, first aid, medicine

  Find police posts, information desks, Hudson shops and wheelchair help at SEA.

  • If someone needs help now
  • For a minor injury, start at an information desk
  • Need medicine? Check the right Hudson branch
  • If care takes you outside SEA
• Sensory Rooms and Quiet Spaces at SEA Airport

  SEA has two sensory rooms, both after security and open 4 a.m. to 12 a.m. Call (206) 787-5229 and press 1 for the key code. Locations and quiet backups.

  • Which room is closer to your gate
  • How to get in
  • Finding the A Station room
  • Finding the C Concourse room
  • When the room is taken or closed
  • Before you fly: social story, TSA Cares and the lanyard
  • Sources
• Traveling through SEA with medication or devices: what TSA allows

  TSA lets you carry pills and medically necessary liquids over 3.4 oz through SEA security. Checkpoint hours, TSA Cares and who to ask for help.

  • What TSA says about each item
  • At the checkpoint, in order
  • Which checkpoint should you use?
  • CPAP machines and other questions
  • Who helps at SEA
  • Carry-on or checked bag?
  • Arriving from another country
  • If you run short or leave something behind
  • Sources
• Wheelchair assistance at Seattle airport: how to arrange it

  Book wheelchair help with your airline before you fly, then call Prospect Airport Services for the stretch to the ticket counter. Free, with phone numbers.

  • Who to call for each stretch
  • Who qualifies for wheelchair and special assistance
  • Book with the airline first
  • Where help meets you before security
  • Arriving by light rail
  • Other ways to reach the terminal
  • What travelers say
  • A paid option, and meeting a traveler
  • If help doesn’t show up
  • Sources