Originally Posted by
cordelli
If you want to get to the airport three days early that's fine, but someday you will need to cut in front of somebody for a tight connection and it may be the family who you taught a lesson to about arrivial times.
It's already happened. OP says he only caught a flight out of CDG because other pax let him jump the queue, but then took a certain amount of pleasure denying a family the same courtesy in SFO.