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How true is your experience at a major international airport, which most travelers use.

• JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > How true is your experience at a major international airport, which most travelers use I show up to JFK about 45 minutes before boarding in the early weekday AM, or, if I have the misfortune of having to check a bag, about 75 minutes before. (Same for SFO, PHX and IAD.) American airports are far more efficient, for frequent fliers, than European ones are for Europeans. For good measure. They get it right. If you're rich in Europe, take the train.
• devilbunny 3y ago
  Depends on the major international airport, but DFW and BOS (Dallas-Fort Worth and Boston) are both fine. My wife flies to DFW from a small airport and back frequently, to see her parents. It's really not much different in terms of time to check in and clear security if you have Precheck (though at airports with multiple security screening areas, do notice which ones offer Precheck at what hours so you don't have to do the slow screen), though the small airport will sometimes let things slide that big airports won't [0], especially if the TSA agents recognize you personally. Her parents even live a shorter drive away from DFW than we do from our small airport. [0] American Airlines at my small airport, for two early-morning flights to different destinations, had all checked baggage going through one agent whose intervention was required for every. single. bag. even if checked in with a kiosk. Of course there was no way we could get the bags on, so we were going to miss the flight. But we went through TSA (both Global Entry/Precheck) with obviously too-big bags and liquids, and they said "no way that's a carry-on", and we said we were going to have the gate agent check it for us, and they said good luck. We made the flight.