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Hey this happened to me last week (before all of this) in JFK for the same reason. People even came to the gate while we were on the plane and said the pilot just landed 3 gates away, but he never came to our plane lol.

They even ran out of hotel vouchers and were making people go 90 minutes away at 1 AM when the flight was scheduled (and took of at) 6.

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That sounds infuriating.

3 hours of travel time, plus 20 minutes for hotel check-in, plus 15 minutes for checkout, plus 15 minutes for waiting for the shuttle x 2, plus 10 minutes of walking to the bus stop, and that's 4:15 before you even hit the pillow.

That would put you at 5:15 AM, 45 minutes before the plane departs. Delta recommends you be at the airport at least 2 hours before the plane departs. So by their own recommendations, there is no way this could work, even assuming you didn't even head up to the room.

They recommend 2 hours so you are not late due to unforeseen issues at security. But a 5:15 (which is the time most airports actually open) there are only a handful of flights and as such, TSA is lightening fast. So that 2 hour recommendation really drops to about 45 minutes

Source: lots of 5:45 flights with the airport security opening at 5:15

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