Originally Posted by N19906

I don't know how that's going to work. SEA is already choking on airplanes. 16C is supposed to reopen today, but flow delays have become the norm if you're heading there. They're also doing gate-hold proceedures when the line to the end of the runway gets too long. We had to sit over fifteen minutes loaded at the gate before they released us last week. Wx was CAVU.
They don't have enough taxiway space for all the movements, and every time a heavy needs 16L for landing preformance, well, that's the primary departure runway.
Ten years ago or so, we didn't even have a ramp control frequency, much less multiples, and now at times it's a battle to get a word in at all.