A 26-minute-early Seattle arrival reportedly still meant a 26-minute wait to exit

A traveler says he landed in Seattle 26 minutes early but waited the full 26 minutes to leave the plane, blaming missing software and AI and a failure to rearrange gates. In an earlier account of a conversation with Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, he described SMART, a predictive tool from Air Space Intelligence. Duffy suggested a 2.5-hour ground stop might need only 45 minutes, while controllers would still make every call.