Originally Posted by
UnitedTaiwan
As a diamond, the best experience I've ever had, was checking into JFK 23 minutes before the actual flight time.
I was actually surprised that the check-in counters were still open '23 min before dept time' (in an outstation). Would have thought counters were closed like 40-45 min before dept, and then supervisors and (some) agents would go to dept gate for boarding preparation ...