SEA Airport Delays, Cancellations Continue Into Wednesday, Beyond

SEATTLE, WA — Almost 200 flights in and out of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport have already been canceled Wednesday morning, days after winter weather and COVID-19 began causing widespread cancellations at the airport.

As of around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, 180 flights in and out of the airport had already been canceled, and 78 more had been delayed, according to FlightTracker data.

And more are to come, as FlightTracker shows that 177 flights scheduled to arrive or depart the airport tomorrow have already been canceled, and 45 have been delayed.

One flight into the airport on Friday — a Delta flight from Los Angeles — has already been canceled as well, according to FlightTracker, and a Friday Delta flight from Phoenix has been delayed.

The cancellations are the latest twist in a week of headaches for travelers, as the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport saw nearly 250 flight cancellations on Sunday, and hundreds more on Monday and Tuesday.

And they come as the Pacific Northwest braces for more wintry conditions — forecasts call for another 1 to 3 inches of snow to fall overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning.

"A weather system will drop down from the north/northwest Wednesday night and Thursday, likely bringing another shot of lowland snow to the area," NWS Seattle wrote Tuesday. "The most likely scenario is [1 to 3 inches] with about a 10% chance of [3 to 5 inches]. Complicating matters is highs will warm into the 30s for the interior and lower 40s at the coast, so snow might change to a rain/snow mix for parts of the interior from about Seattle south and turn to all rain for a while at the coast. The mountains should pick up something like 6-12 inches of new snow as well."