From booking to boarding: What is typically the shortest time to book a flight until boarding?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 30 Jul, 2023
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It depends on
- where you are
- where you want to go
But before that, keep in mind that check-in closes on average 30-40 minutes prior to the flight departure, luggage drop-off one hour before and security will take, in the best-case scenario, 15 minutes. (Although 30-40 is more likely.) You simply can’t go through security before you board your flight!
So, if you are lucky enough that there is a flight departing within the next hour which isn’t fully booked and you are not checking any luggage in and the security lane doesn’t have any queue you could potentially complete the entire process in under an hour. That said, you’ll also have to check that the country where you want to fly doesn’t require you to obtain a visa prior to arrival.
Minutes. All airlines still sell walk-up tickets, where you simply rock up to the airport and ask “a ticket for the next flight, please”, although you will usually pay through the nose for the privilege.
In the case of standby tickets, you may not even be able to purchase the ticket until check-in has closed, which may be as little as 30 minutes before flight departure. While these are increasingly rare, they still exist, particularly in Japan: for example, Solaseed’s standby-only Visit Japan fares are only available at the airport counter if there’s space left on the plane.
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