Originally Posted by WillTravel
Despite getting in line two hours before, I've never spent an hour in the queue for a low-cost carrier. The most has been ten or fifteen minutes. Airports I have used low-cost carriers with: Stansted, Torp, Orly, Schoenefelde
Then you've been extremely lucky. I've queued an hour for Ryanair flights, both at STN (which I use a fair bit as I live nearby), and on a recent flight home from SZG.