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At the gate with time to spare.

Most flight stress lives in the two hours before you fly. Did I pack everything? How bad is security? What if there's traffic? A backward plan doesn't erase those worries. It turns each one into a scheduled step, which is usually enough to keep you moving.

Why "leave 2 hours early" isn't a plan

Two hours early for what? Leaving the house? Arriving at the airport? Getting through security? The generic advice doesn't account for the 30 minutes of packing, the 40-minute drive, or the TSA line that's 15 minutes on Tuesday and 90 minutes on Friday. You need a plan that starts from gate close and works backward through every real step.

The plan in Ready Time

  1. Set the deadline. That's the time you need to be ready.
  2. Add your steps and how long each one really takes.
  3. Ready Time works backward and gives every step a start time.
Catch a Flight
10 min Check in online 9:40 AM
30 min Pack & double-check 9:50 AM
10 min Load car 10:20 AM
40 min Drive to airport 10:30 AM
10 min Park & shuttle 11:10 AM
45 min Security & TSA 11:20 AM
15 min Walk to gate 12:05 PM
30 min Boarding 12:20 PM
Catch a Flight 1:00 PM

From gate close to "start packing"

Ready Time starts at the one time that's fixed: when the gate closes. From there it subtracts boarding, security buffer, the drive, loading the car, and packing. You get a notification for each step. The first one, "start packing," is where you begin. Everything after that is following the plan.

Travel time to the airport

If the flight is on your calendar, Ready Time can fill in the destination from the event. Make the drive a travel step, choose driving, and Apple Maps times the route to the terminal.

Home Terminal
🚗 40 min
🚗 Drive 🚶 Walk 🚴 Cycle
40 min Drive to airport

Change where you're leaving from or how you're getting there, and every step before the drive shifts with it.

Can I share the airport timeline with whoever I'm flying with?

One person usually holds the whole day in their head and everyone else asks. Give the group the leave time and the two or three steps in front of it and the questions stop. Share the plan and it lands on their phone with its own alerts, so a partner packing in another room is working from the same 9:50 you are. Whoever is driving you can have it too, since the airport run is their deadline as much as yours.

One timeline for everyone on the flight

Packing starts at 9:50 for both of you, not just for whoever built the plan.

It lands on their phone with its own alert for every step.

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✈️ Catch a Flight
10 min Check in online 9:40 AM
30 min Pack & double-check 9:50 AM
10 min Load car 10:20 AM
Catch a Flight 1:00 PM
✈️ Catch a Flight
10 min Check in online 9:40 AM
30 min Pack & double-check 9:50 AM
10 min Load car 10:20 AM
Ready Time 9:40 AM
Check in online. Departure in 3h 20m
Ready Time 10:30 AM
Drive to airport. Departure in 2h 30m
Ready Time 12:20 PM
Boarding. Departure in 40m

Alerts when it's time to start

Get a nudge at the right moment, while there's still time to act.

Each step gets its own alert, so you know what's next and how long you have.

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“I get so tired of counting backward to when I should start my task. This app is the solution.”
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Ready Time

You know what you need to do. Ready Time helps you know when to start.

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