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SeaPort Airlines will fly between Spokane and Olympia for the legislative session

If you're headed between Spokane and the Capitol this winter, there's a new option. SeaPort Airlines will run two flights a week during the 105-day session, leaving Spokane's Felts Field Sundays at 3:25 p.m.

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SeaPort would add four flight operations to about 200 a day

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Airport's daily takeoffs and landings200
SeaPort's, Fridays and Sundays4

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Daily Olympiato me · Wed., Nov. 116:00 a.m.

SeaPort will fly Spokane to Olympia this legislative session

Plus, Olympia school board votes Thursday on three school closures.

The TLDR

  1. SeaPort Airlines will fly Spokane to Olympia starting Jan. 8
  2. Olympia school board votes Thursday on three school closures
  3. KinderCare workers in Olympia file to unionize
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