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Two types of airport people

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The compulsively early (myself included) and the chronically late (including some who do it just for the thrill of the game)...

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My late father was a "road warrior" for business when I was growing up. We lived about 15 mins from O'Hare , so traffic was really a non-issue. My Dad never drove himself to ORD or relied on taxis, rather my mother or us kids were his airport transport. This was all pre 9/11 when security was not the issue it was today. But my dad loved to cut it as close to possible of when we would leave the house yet he could still make his flight....to the last minute. He really got increasingly sick of traveling for business so he wanted every minute at home as he could. And I think there was some sort of "game" he played by viewing himself victorious if he was the last guy who walked onto the plane before the door shut.
 

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What's bad is when one of us wants to get there barely on time, and the other wants to be hours early. The thing with being early is that if a flight is delayed by 3 hours, you are spending way too much time at the airport. That happened to us on Friday night. There was a storm near the Denver airport, so our flight was ridiculously late to Atlanta. So we left over 3 hours before our flight, ate dinner at the Priority Pass restaurant (free), then went to the gate, only to find out that the flight was delayed an hour, then two hours, then three hours.
 

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What's bad is when one of us wants to get there barely on time, and the other wants to be hours early. The thing with being early is that if a flight is delayed by 3 hours, you are spending way too much time at the airport. That happened to us on Friday night. There was a storm near the Denver airport, so our flight was ridiculously late to Atlanta. So we left over 3 hours before our flight, ate dinner at the Priority Pass restaurant (free), then went to the gate, only to find out that the flight was delayed an hour, then two hours, then three hours.

Even worse is when you already played the airport game and get on your flight, only to learn on arrival at the midpoint that your connecting flight has been seriously delayed. Happened to me at O’Hare a few years ago. My 45 minute layover ended being more than four hours!

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Even worse is when you already played the airport game and get on your flight, only to learn on arrival at the midpoint that your connecting flight has been seriously delayed...

That's a minor problem compared to landing at your connecting airport after flying all day from Europe only to learn that your connecting flight was canceled, and it was the last one that day, so you have to spend the night at a Newark hotel, w/o compensation since it was weather related, or so they said.

But more on topic, I have a brother who is a last minute arrive person.
I flew with him 1x... never again. I don't need the stress.

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