Adjace but it pets my peeve when my travel companion does not share my preferred level of risk. Like for domestic flights, I like to be walking into the airport an hour before takeoff. For my MIL, for example, she would prefer to be at the gate 2 hrs before departure. So if we ever travel together then it’s like okay do I sit around in the airport for an extra hour and a half - chasing around a toddler - or do I get there closer to my preferred time but deal with the palpable nervous energy bc we’re cutting it waaaaaaay too close? Truly a Sophie’s Choice type situation
I must be the most irritable person on the planet because I really can't stand like everything that gets posted here. This one isn't a pet peeve for me because when anyone travels with me, airport arrival times isn't democratic. I'm driving and we're going to arrive when I say we're going to arrive. Don't like it, tough crap. I understand people have high airport anxiety and don't mind sitting at a gave for 2 hours, my time is much more valuable than that.
On that note, in 2023, airports need to be much better about listing current security wait times, it isn't that hard. When I went to Orlando last week, literally the day before I left the DSM airport sent out a press release informing the public that anyone with early morning flights should arrive 2 hours before departure, because of long security lines, which is quite a departure from normal here. I follow their advise and arrive two hours early and the line was long, but it only took 20 minutes to get through as opposed to the normal zero minutes.
Ironically enough, Orlando now does put security line times on their website, the only time I missed a flight because of security lines was there, 5 years ago when I was in line for 2.5 rough ridin' hours, they didn't have security line times then.