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Get TSA Precheck, carry your luggage on (easy for work trips IME), learn the typical transit time and latencies for security. I can leave my house at 4:30-4:45 for a 6 AM flight (boarding closes at 5:45), reliably make it, have breakfast on the flight, and walk off the plane directly to ground transport and be in fine shape to work a full day somewhere.

You can add hours of buffer time if you want (if you're flying to do an organ transplant, maybe that's a good idea); most people can take a 0.5% chance of missing their flight. (I've literally never missed one, though I've been a few minutes away from doing so a couple times, usually because of my own error, once because of unexpectedly long security lines, even for TSA Pre.)



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