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When to leave for the airport.

“Get there two hours early” is the last step, not the whole plan. Pick your airport and work backward from your flight time through boarding, security, parking, and the drive, to when you should start packing.

West Coast & Pacific

Mountain West

Midwest & South

East Coast & Southeast

Every airport page is the same calculator

Each page asks whether the flight is domestic or international, how you’re getting there (driving and parking, getting dropped off, rideshare, returning a rental car, or transit where a real train runs), whether you’re checking bags, and, at airports where the concourse changes the answer, how far out your gate is. Those answers fill in a plan that ends at departure and starts at “final pack & check,” with defaults for that airport: how long security tends to take, whether parking involves a train, whether the gate needs one too. Tap the departure time or any duration and the whole chain recomputes backward.

The defaults are starting points to edit before the morning of your flight. Your drive, your terminal, and your Tuesday are all editable. Once the numbers are yours, the leave-by time and the start-packing time come from your actual plan.

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If you are taking the train, the Amtrak station pages use the same kind of plan without a security line, so the answer there is closer to thirty minutes than two hours. If you are not traveling at all, the leave time calculator does the same math for any deadline, and the pre-flight routine covers the morning of in more detail.

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