Transport guides

How to get between SEA and where you are going: trains, buses, taxis, ride-hail and rental cars, with what each costs and where it picks up as the operators publish it. The guides compare the options for the trips people make most, and the transport pages list every mode in one place.

Looking for the listings themselves? They are on the Transport page.

• Arriving at SEA late at night: what still runs after the last train

  After the last Link train at SEA, the Night Bus 597 starts at 12:26 a.m. Taxis and rideshare run 24 hours. Find where to board.

  • If you can still catch Link
  • After the last train, find the 597 Night Bus
  • If you want a car from the terminal
  • If the wait gets longer
• Buses from Seattle Airport: Routes, Stops and Where They Go

  Metro and the 597 board across International Boulevard. The 560 boards on the terminal's lower drive.

  • Pick your route before you walk
  • From baggage claim to the right stop
  • Fares, night service and missed buses
• Cycling to Seattle airport

  Bike racks at SEA, the limit on Sound Transit bike lockers, Smarte Carte storage, and both airport bike entrances.

  • Pick an entrance before you set out
  • Where should you leave the bike?
  • Lockers are by the station, outside the terminal
  • Sources
• Dropping someone off at SEA

  Use SEA's upper departures drive, or the lower drive when the upper drive is busy. Garage parking to walk someone in is $8 an hour.

  • Choose your drive before the split
  • If you need to go inside, park
  • Give the person flying enough time after the curb
  • Sources
• Getting to SEA for a 6 a.m. flight

  Be at SEA by 4 a.m. for a 6 a.m. domestic flight, 3 a.m. international. Check Night Bus 597, Metro 124, taxis, rideshare, shuttles and parking.

  • Can the first train get you there?
  • The night buses need a stop-by-stop check
  • If transit misses the target
  • Once you reach the terminal
• Picking Someone Up at SEA: Cell Phone Lot, Arrivals Drive and Garage

  Wait free in SEA's cell phone lot (2623 S. 170th St, 200 spaces, 20-minute limit). The arrivals drive is busiest 8 p.m. to midnight. The garage is $8 an hour.

  • Cell phone lot, garage or curb
  • The cell phone lot
  • The arrivals drive and its busy hours
  • Meeting inside from the garage
  • Meeting an international arrival
  • An international passenger comes out 60 minutes or more after landing
• Rental cars at SEA: the rental car facility

  Find SEA's free 24-hour rental car shuttle, the facility address, return directions and the extra transfer for Rent-A-Wreck.

  • From baggage claim to the shuttle
  • Rental companies serving SEA
  • Pickup at the facility
  • How do you drive back to return the car?
  • Getting from the facility to your flight
  • If you need a wheelchair
• Seattle airport to downtown: every option and what it costs

  SEA to downtown Seattle: Link light rail is $3 and 39 minutes to Westlake. Taxi, Uber, the Night Bus and Premier's vans compared by cost and boarding spot.

  • The options side by side
  • Link: the walk and the ticket
  • Which downtown stop to ride to
  • First and last trains, and how often they run
  • Landing after the last train
  • Taxis
  • Uber and Lyft
  • Premier’s shared and private vans
  • Cruise day: Pier 66 works by train, Pier 91 doesn’t
  • Sources
• Shared shuttles from Seattle airport

  Premier's door-to-door vans and the Bellevue shuttle board on garage Level 3. Other airporters board at the Arrivals Drive curb, Doors 00 and 02.

  • Which shuttle boards where
  • How to reach the curb airporters
  • Reaching the garage plaza for a door-to-door van
  • Shared or private: what Premier sells
  • When a shuttle isn’t the best fit
  • What goes wrong, and what to do
  • Sources
• Taxi fare from Seattle airport

  SEA taxis are metered with a $20 minimum and run 24 hours from garage Level 3. See the downtown cost against Link at $3 and Uber, plus the walk.

  • What the meter charges
  • Where to catch a taxi
  • Taxi, Uber or Link
  • Cruise passengers heading for Pier 91
  • Sources
• The Link light rail from SEA airport into Seattle

  Link runs from SEA to Westlake in 39 minutes for $3. The walk from carousel 16, how to pay, which stop, first and last trains, and the night buses.

  • From baggage claim to the platform
  • How do you pay?
  • Can you take luggage on the train?
  • Which stop do you want?
  • Last train from the airport toward downtown
  • Sources
• Uber and Lyft pickup at Seattle airport

  Uber and Lyft meet you on Level 3 of the SEA parking garage, stalls 1 to 34. Uber Black meets at a baggage claim door. Route, fares and a scam check.

  • From baggage claim to your stall
  • Which ride meets where
  • What Uber says it costs
  • Uber Black and other premium rides
  • If you’d rather have the car waiting
  • Bags, groups and assistance
  • A rider’s report of a pickup gone wrong
  • Dropping off at departures
  • If you’re not using an app