I flew out from Sea-Tac Airport to Spokane for a weekend trip. Some family friends moved out to…read moreEastern WA recently and we decided to visit them. I've done the road trip with friends from Seattle to Spokane before but this time around I wanted to fly. It's a mid size airport like Boise. It's larger than Glacier Park Int'l Airport in Kalispell but smaller than Sea-Tac. Security was easy to get through. It wasn't chaotic at all and TSA didn't yell at people like they do at Sea-Tac. The airport was pretty easy to navigate. They're closing Wild Waves in Federal Way this year. Silverwood would probably be the next largest theme park in the region. You could easily fly to Spokane, rent a car, and stay in Coeur d'Alene.

I LOVE Spokane International Airport, I wish it was my experience at every single other airport…read more Great customer service, courteous TSA agents, very clean, modernized amenities, great variety of dining options, multiple flight options across most airlines, and extremely easy to navigate. Until next time Spokane International Airport.

"Air Taxis R Us!"…read more SITREP I FIRST flew up from Walla Walla, WA in the Fall of 1980 (where I was in College) to visit my mom who was living in St. Maries, ID by then (where she grew up as a little girl and moved back to when she divorced my dad that same year). I love that there is not a Vietnam-era warplane now standing guard over the air field: https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/st-maries-airport-st-maries?select=hQTr19Z7vzi_zstHUbNSQw THE SETUP Amazing. Upon visiting it again earlier this year, it really has not grown any bigger in 36 years. But you know what? * This is a remote location of Idaho; * It's big enough to get the single-prop / turbo-prop air taxis in-and-out for visitors like me; * It's in an IMPORTANT strategic location for both Wilderness Rescue and Fire Fighting (the helicopters stationed here often go fill up tanks in the reservoirs around my uncle's homestead to go fight forest fires); https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/st-maries-airport-st-maries?select=wVSmsdxVDfJOFNukw5fJ7A and, * Occasionally, we ARE treated to a Learjet or Gulfstream jet that is delivering a V.I.P. or had to make an emergency landing, and THAT is a dramatic event when the jet engines *REVERB* the entire little valley with it's turbine thrust. LOCAL KNIT COMMUNITY Other agricultural aircraft and some private owners with rented hangars balance out the aircraft community here. A fun, tight-knit group, and often with trips to go hang out at THE GEM STATE BAR (as if we were reliving the Cantina-scene from Star Wars). THE LOWDOWN There ain't no f*ckin TSA here, that's all I have to say!!!

Clean, pleasant, appears new. Friendly staff. Fuel prices are fair at 5.35 per gallon jet a.read more

Fairly friendly and efficient given that it is the TSA, but Spokane folks are typically friendly…read morefolks. Spokane International Airport is a small airport so there are usually not too many travelers on any given day. As a result the TSA lines are shorter and move quicker than the big boy airports.

May 13, 2024 at approximately 3:00 pm. There's nothing like showing up two hours early with only…read moreabout 20 other people going through the security checkpoint and having the tsa agent declare your real ID as invalid and demanding another form of ID because his colleague declares that my state "has a problem". I submit it is Spokane and these particular people who have "a problem" considering I have traveled hundreds of times with this ID with no problems and the gal in the adjacent kiosk had no problems. This tsa agent felt it necessary to continue to be obnoxious to us and others as we all tried to traverse a very unprofessional, inefficient and somewhat incompetent security situation. I travel quite a bit and am deeply appreciative of the necessary hard work tsa agents perform. Spokane can and needs to do better!

As far as TSA checkpoints go, this one is... Not great. Not the worst I've seen by a long shot. But…read morenot the best either. First and foremost, the layout is super weird. It gets crowded and backed up quickly. Also TSA Pre-check and the normal screening line terminate at the same group of agents, and then you go through the same checkpoint. The line sometimes backs up so far they run out of que space and then trail out into the lobby. For me personally, I have literally been stopped for additional screening every single time I've gone through this checkpoint. Every single time. So yeah, it's not the best.

Weird layout that gets clogged up quickly. Staff were friendly and everything moved quickly. TSA…read moreagent even made a silly joke - probably a great way to keep tensions down. Embarrassingly, I didn't get it at first - which actually made it more funny. I can't imagine the stress of constantly repeating. We had TSA pre-check. Pictue taken & id scanned, no boarding pass required, shoes on, bags on the belt and small items/jacket in the tub, walk through, no beep, grab your stuff & step aside to organize. In all, less than 15min from car drop to gate.