Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

13:50 EDT

I decided to fly from Toronto to Ottawa this morning. There is a perfectly functional (if slow) train, but my carbon footprint for this trip is already gargantuan so I didn't feel too bad about saving a couple of hours and collecting a couple of hundred miles along the way.

Printing my boarding pass and bus-ticket to the airport yesterday, I noticed that for a domestic flight of under an hour, it is recommended that I get to the airport three hours before my flight.

What are these people smoking?

I showed up 40 minutes before my flight and had an ocean of time to get bored in. What on earth do they expect people to do for three hours? I have yet to miss my first flight due to showing up to the airport too late.

Flying is supposed to be the most efficient (if most polluting) way to get between two points. If you tell people to come to the airport with enough time to walk to their destination, it's no wonder airlines are losing business.