How early you need to get the airport depends on where you are flying *from*, not where you are flying *to* (apart from whether it is domestic or international, of course). I would suggest people look on the airport's website for advice. For example, London Heathrow airport says:
http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/page/Heathrow%5EGeneral%5EAirport+info...
"As a general guide, you should allow:
Three hours before scheduled departure for long-haul and El Al flights."
(Interestingly, it does single out El Al flights, which I wasn't expecting when I started this email!)
On 30 July 2011 07:57, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hello,
Some Wikimaniacs already landed in Israel, but most of you will be flying in the next few days.
The travel agent who sold you the plane ticket must have told you this, but let me re-iterate it, because it's very, very important: When you go to Israel, arrive to the airport three and a half hours before the departure! For example, if your flight departs at 22:00, you must already be at the airport at 18:30. Yes, that is a lot of time. It is needed because of security checks, although it doesn't mean that you'll spend three hours in interrogations and X-rays - you'll probably spend most of it reading or browsing the duty-free store. Nevertheless, don't arrive late!
The same is true for the return flight: When you go from Israel back home, arrive at the Ben-Gurion airport three and a half hours before the departure.
Make sure you take a good book to spend the waiting time productively! :)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l