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You make good points. Personally I have problems timing flights even with "fast" airports. I usually end up at the airport way too early. But then I'm not so mu
by __mp 10y ago
You make good points. Personally I have problems timing flights even with "fast" airports. I usually end up at the airport way too early. But then I'm not so much of a frequent flyer and my employer asks me to take the train to nearby destinations (mostly ZRH -> FRA). I don't mind watching the landscape rolling by while working.
Yes, for some connections you'd have to change in Bern.
- crdb 10y agoI had a really shameless colleague who flew to London twice a week. He never checked in luggage, stayed in his suit, and arrived at GVA about 20 minutes before flight departure. If there was no queue, he'd make it easily; if there was a queue, he'd use the final call as an excuse to skip to the front and said people always let him (hence my calling him shameless). Without getting that extreme, there's definitely a case to be made for knowing expected processing time from arriving to the airport to being in the plane (and generally, the distribution of probable door to door time when you buy your flight). I've done LCY in under 10 minutes once, but was turned away at LHR because I arrived there 44 minutes before the flight and BA cutoff at 45. The biggest queues in Europe are usually going out, rather than into the flight. Train is great if it is well planned. I did MRS-GVA by train and it took 5 hours as it was going 30kph between Lyon and Geneva. SNCF oversold the TGV and there were 10-20 people standing per carriage. The queue at Geneva Station customs added a further 10 minutes. Next time: Blablacar.