Comment on How soon do you get there?
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Two hours is plenty. Never missed a flight and I’ve been on many dozens, unfortunately. If I want to eat, drink, or shop beforehand, pretty much anywhere is cheaper than an airport, so I’ll do it elsewhere.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Once in Seattle I showed up at the airport 3 hours early, didn’t realize there was a big game that had gone in the day before, and only baaaarely made it to my flight on time. Wasn’t even international.
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
It can definitely happen, especially in large cities. I suppose I’ve mostly combined luck with my laziness.
It’s also why I greatly prefer small airports, the smallest of which was literally a single room made of corrugated tin and little else. My flight left half an hour early.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah small airports are great. Where I’m at now the local airport is pretty small, flights only go to/from Stockholm. They’re rarely even full I could probably just show up and grab a ticket like a fancy bus half an hour before takeoff. Sometimes there is a little stall selling local honey that’s just honor system nobody operates it and there isn’t any camera or anything just a wooden table and a paper with payment info lol
speckofrust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Sounds like I need to spend time in Sweden. My wanderings have been primarily equatorial.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Medium sized airports are the problem. Airports for big cities can handle tons of people. But you have an event in a mis-size city and it’s a disaster.