Check out time for LAS (Las Vegas) 7am flight?
Aug 17, 2009, 7:07 pm
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Check out time for LAS (Las Vegas) 7am flight?
I have a 7am flight out LAS on Friday. I'll be staying Thurs night at the Orleans. I've never taken a flight out of here that early. I'm wondering between:
- driving to the car rental return (and returning)
- catching shutte to airport
- going through security
How early I should plan on leaving? On the shuttle bus to the car rental agentcy, they played an announcement, "TSA recommends getting to the airport 2hrs before your flight". Do I really need to plan on checking out of my hotel at 4am to catch my flight?
Thanks.
Jeff
- driving to the car rental return (and returning)
- catching shutte to airport
- going through security
How early I should plan on leaving? On the shuttle bus to the car rental agentcy, they played an announcement, "TSA recommends getting to the airport 2hrs before your flight". Do I really need to plan on checking out of my hotel at 4am to catch my flight?
Thanks.
Jeff
Aug 17, 2009, 8:35 pm
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I'd be out the door of Orleans no later than 5 AM sharp. 20 minute drive to the car rental facility; 10-20 minutes dropping the car, getting on the bus, getting to the airport; 10-30 minutes getting through security and tram to gate. A bit of cushion for unforeseen events. At the gate at 6:10 AM or so if everything's hunky dory.
Aug 17, 2009, 8:54 pm
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Lines can be very long. I'd want two hours not 45 minutes at the airport. Sometimes a first class ticket speeds you through the line. Better safe than sorry.
My last Vages trip was in coach and I cleared security and was at the gate on a Thursday in less than 15 minutes at around 8 am. But time before it took over an hour to reach the gate.
My last Vages trip was in coach and I cleared security and was at the gate on a Thursday in less than 15 minutes at around 8 am. But time before it took over an hour to reach the gate.
Aug 18, 2009, 3:01 am
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The length of the lines at security is seems to directly correlated to the ending of a convention. I normally take the redeye's out of LAS, and the lines after 8 pm are almost non-existent.
On the other hand a few times I took morning flights (after a convention ended), the line made a double ESS curve--close to an hour wait to get to the point where they checked tickets and ID.
On the other hand a few times I took morning flights (after a convention ended), the line made a double ESS curve--close to an hour wait to get to the point where they checked tickets and ID.
Aug 18, 2009, 8:57 am
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A first class ticket (to the "D" gates) takes all variability out of the equation. There's never any lines for the front of the bus. Last trip I left Harrah's at 5:15am and was sitting at the gate at 5:50. With retuning a car, I'd go with the 5am sharp recommendation. Be in the car and 5am and you'll be fine.
Aug 19, 2009, 3:44 pm
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I have a 7am flight out LAS on Friday. I'll be staying Thurs night at the Orleans. I've never taken a flight out of here that early. I'm wondering between:
- driving to the car rental return (and returning)
- catching shutte to airport
- going through security
How early I should plan on leaving? On the shuttle bus to the car rental agentcy, they played an announcement, "TSA recommends getting to the airport 2hrs before your flight". Do I really need to plan on checking out of my hotel at 4am to catch my flight?
Thanks.
Jeff
- driving to the car rental return (and returning)
- catching shutte to airport
- going through security
How early I should plan on leaving? On the shuttle bus to the car rental agentcy, they played an announcement, "TSA recommends getting to the airport 2hrs before your flight". Do I really need to plan on checking out of my hotel at 4am to catch my flight?
Thanks.
Jeff
Do you have airline "status"?
Do you plan on "contingencies"?
With a rental car, leaving 2 hrs from the hotel, before air departure, seems prudent.