and I thought it takes 1-2h to/from the plane
 

Stories about how quickly it can happen to get on a plane - or of it and back home/hotel/..
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Sunday was a nice day in terms of going airside, boarding, deboarding, landside and home.

Was travelling by train from some valley deep down in Switzerland to ZRH.
Arrived at trains platform #1 at ZRH and walked to Check-in 1 directions, scanned BP for
fast-track security. No queue, no issues. Headed to SEN Lounge in A.
Elapsed time between leaving train and lightning up cigarillo in lounge: 14min.
From A-Lounge to Gate A86 (only one more further out in this concourse): 5min.
After arriving parking position, almost immediately LX captain announced that
we'd have to wait for the jetbridge due to shortage of personell. Well, the bridge was
there within 2-3min. Must be some LX/HAM thing, have read more overheard
complaints of LX pilots about HAM..
Anyway, door 1L opens and I head out for a Taxi (~1min wait) and I am back home
at my desk around 12min after leaving my seat in 3F.

So in "tara" terms, this took me 14+5+12 = 31min to "waste" outside the actual
flight including some detour to a lounge (cut down ~3min not going there).

Disclaimer: no passport controls (out/in) had to be passed.

Maybe some story on about how status and carry-on can matter :-)

what.

+1 :D ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've walked in the front of several airports and been in my seat on the plane within 4-5 minutes. ABQ and OKC some to mind.

From stepping off the parking shuttle bus to being at my gate, at my home airport, DAY, normally takes all of 5 minutes. I have Precheck, but even regular security wouldn't take much longer from what I've seen. Checking a bag normally only adds a few minutes at most. The longest part of the whole process is the drive from my house or office to the parking lot - still only ~20 minutes.

And BUR.

Yes, I suspect many FT members can add their own experiences. Pretty much any small airport with <10 gates probably has less than a couple hundred yards of total walking and no security wait line, at least during non-peak times.

Schengen and status are quite useful things indeed. I find that if I have something productive to do in the lounge and train, traveling isn't that much lost time.

Nani kore?

ZRH is none of those things :)

I have precheck and clear. If I have no luggage to check, I can park in the BWI garage and be at the gate in 10 mins.

MCI has always been this way for me, although for the next few years it's going to be a bit of a <redacted by moderator> while they build the new terminal.

Dropped the car at the off-site parking at 8:30, shuttle to YYZ T1, through security and on the plane by 8:45. Boarding didn't finish for another 10 minutes so I had plenty of time to spare.

Off-peak hours in BOS is also pretty quick - just hopped on a flight to DC area and I went from curb-to-gate in ~10 min.