I don’t know how to explain it, but time works differently in airports. 5 minutes and 5 hours are somehow the same. Your flight is delayed but arrives early. The carpets are from 1980. The water machines are from 2045. It is always happy hour. You have always been in the airport.

@tiffanycli Time is also very important and also not at all important. You MUST be there 2h ahead of time but wait in line an undetermined amount. The plane leaves in 90m so you better be on it 15m earlier than that! But at best that means we will board in 60m and leave the physical ground in 120m.

This week I had one that was going to leave at 3:58 then had an announced delay to 4:28, then had a silent un-delay back to 3:58, then had intermittent announcements of "just 5 more minutes" for 45m.