Originally Posted by
zrs70
Fwiw, my meeting is on a Sunday morning. Traffic should be negligible.
That helps the situation since traffic shouldn’t be an issue in either Indy or Cincinnati. But even then, I’d argue that a 5:45 AM arrival into IND would be pretty tight for getting to Cincinnati by 8:00. As I said, I put in IND to downtown Cincinnati in Google Maps and right now it’s just a few min under 2 hours at now 12:30 AM - what I would imagine as about the same traffic conditions and levels you’ll encounter at 6:00 - 8:00 AM on Sunday morning. 15 min to get off the plane and pick up a rental car seems and then make a ~2 hour drive overly optimistic to me though. Of course only you know where you have to go in the Cincinnati area and how comfortable you are driving at/above the posted speed limits to arrive on time as well as your risk tolerance or any flexibility for this 8:00 meeting on Sunday morning.