I wonder if I should modify my policy of arriving at airports one hour before departure for domestic flights, shaving down that margin to 50 min or so. I feel like I never brush with missing a flight and I tend to spend a bunch of time waiting around.
Satvik
in reply to Daniel Filan • •Daniel Filan
in reply to Satvik • •Satvik
in reply to Daniel Filan • •Then yeah, seems reasonable – the biggest variance on wait times is typically security, TSA pre cuts that down a lot in most airports, and the rare cases that cause a significant delay there are likely to delay a lot of people, which means a good chance the flight will be delayed as well. And domestic flights are typically pretty easy to reschedule if you miss them, unlike international.
There are caveats if you're at an unfamiliar airport or checking bags, but I imagine you're accounting for those already.
Sam FM
in reply to Daniel Filan • •I recently had the unfortunate experience of an unreasonably long pre-check line at Newark airport. There was a lot of "wait, *this* is the pre-check line??” There were even signs advertising that you could skip this line if you get "pre-check clear." Everyone has a fastpass, so they invented a fasterpass.
(I think it would've been ~30-50 minutes of total waiting in the line if I hadn't apologeticly wormed my way up the line, explaining to people that I was about to miss my flight)
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