once, due to a huge traffic accident on the 101 that turned a sub-half-hour uber into a 1 hour 15 minute uber, i arrived at the airport about 20 minutes before departure (yes, departure, not “gate closes”). because the uber app operates on “uber time”, which is entirely unmoored from reality, this meant that the arrival time estimate slipped out 5 minutes at a time. so i went through the whole range of emotions: whew, thankfully i have an hour buffer; hmm, i’ve never arrived 40 minutes before a flight it’s going to be tight; holy shit i’m going to miss this flight with only 30 mins; holy shit even if i wasn’t going to miss the flight before i definitely am now.
(to make matters worse, not only was the flight not delayed, the departure time was changed to be 5 minutes earlier than originally planned. i didn’t even know they could do that.)
i somehow still managed to get on the flight, which departed as scheduled. still not sure that happened, but i think i learned something about how perseverance is important in the face of almost certain defeat, or something like that idk. 2⁄10 would not do again.
Could you elaborate on the “i somehow still managed to get on the flight” part? How long to get through security (in which line), and how many min before departure did boarding close?
once, due to a huge traffic accident on the 101 that turned a sub-half-hour uber into a 1 hour 15 minute uber, i arrived at the airport about 20 minutes before departure (yes, departure, not “gate closes”). because the uber app operates on “uber time”, which is entirely unmoored from reality, this meant that the arrival time estimate slipped out 5 minutes at a time. so i went through the whole range of emotions: whew, thankfully i have an hour buffer; hmm, i’ve never arrived 40 minutes before a flight it’s going to be tight; holy shit i’m going to miss this flight with only 30 mins; holy shit even if i wasn’t going to miss the flight before i definitely am now.
(to make matters worse, not only was the flight not delayed, the departure time was changed to be 5 minutes earlier than originally planned. i didn’t even know they could do that.)
i somehow still managed to get on the flight, which departed as scheduled. still not sure that happened, but i think i learned something about how perseverance is important in the face of almost certain defeat, or something like that idk. 2⁄10 would not do again.
Could you elaborate on the “i somehow still managed to get on the flight” part? How long to get through security (in which line), and how many min before departure did boarding close?