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If you fly you will frequently be listening to it. The airport must be reached in advance. How much it depends largely on the city from which you take off and what your destination is, but usually the travelers are recommended that they be in the terminal with a margin of 90 minutes either two hours. And that at least. If fate is a distant country, like the US, that margin is quite superior. But … what if that wait could be reduced to 15 minutes?
Just listening to it up the pulsations, but in Tiktok there are people (quite) determined to demonstrate the validity of a “Airport Theory” that holds that: that if you have done the Chek-in Online, you don’t have to bill suitcases and the trip is national, 15 minutes is more than enough not to lose flight.
Not suitable for cardiac. “Traveling is a pleasure,” as I said Gloria Fuertes. But also a source of stress, nerves and hurry. Especially if you travel by plane. Hence operators Like Aena and the own airlines They advise to present themselves well in advance at airports.
The exact time can vary from one case to another, but it usually moves between 90 minutestwo and a half or even the four For some destinations. In Tiktok there are enough people convinced that, at least in certain cases, they arrive with the terminal about 15 minutes before shipping or Even from takeoff. And is so sure of it that has begun to prove it During your own trips.
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The “Airport Theory”. The trend has been baptized as Airport Theory (“Airport Theory”) and has gained strength especially among Anglo -Saxon passengers. He arrives with searching The hashtag In Tiktok to verify that there is a good handful of videos of people (including Tiktokers with millions of followers) committed to demonstratein their own meats that can occur at the airport with much less in advance of what operators and airlines advise and yet to climb their airplanes without problem.
Moreover, the phenomenon has won enough draft to jump from the networks to the generalist media, with reports in US chains and magazines such as The CNN, Fox News either Wired. Some of the videos of Influencers who speak of the theory, like the one who Michael Dicostanzo dedicated him A few days ago, hundreds of thousands of visualizations accumulate.
But … What do you propose? Very simple. Roughly, the “airport theory” holds that until now you have been malicanting hours of your life at airports without any need. At least in certain cases. His hypothesis is that if the passenger has already performed the Check-in Online and only loads with hand luggage (so you don’t have to bill suitcases) you can reach the airport 15 minutes before embarking.
According to the viral trend that is enough margin to pass the security controls, travel the distance to the boarding row and access the plane. All this, of course, without losing the flight. “Is it really necessary Betsy Grunch wonderswith 2.4 million followers on Tiktok.
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“I don’t think it’s necessary”. In An interview Recent with the CNN Grunch remembers that she had to check “the airport theory” one day that traffic and luggage problems led him to perform at the HartSfiel-Jackson International Airport, in Atlanta, only 26 minutes before his boarding time. As good TiktokerHe took the phone and recorded what came later: a race not suitable for cardiacs that allowed him to take his flight on time.
Other influencer who wanted to verify it was James Shaw, although he opted for An experiment Sater: he went with his wife to a Florida airport with 90 minutes in advance of rigor and then used a stopwatch to calculate how long they took to reach his boarding door. He paused him after 13 minutes.
“I think traveling can be very stressful and that’s why we say ‘I need to be there three or four hours earlier, or whatever it is.’ I don’t think it is necessary to do it,” Add Shaw. Of course, he only wore hand luggage and used a service that speeds up the procedures in the terminal. Like Grunch, he also recognizes that they would never test the theory on an international, more expensive trip and in which security controls can be more complicated … and long.
The debate, served. Does “airport theory” work? In Tiktok you can find comments and videos both for and against. Also of course pieces of Tiktokers They have ended up seeing how They remain on land. Beyond recordings such as Dicostanzo and the debate that has emerged in networks, there are a few data that help to understand the scope of the trend … and some of its repercussions.
A few days ago Wired needed That the “airport theory” accumulates more than 400 million visits in Tiktok, a sudden interest that seems to have coincided with a considerable rebound by Google Trends in the searches of “I have lost my flight, what do I do?” The truth is that airlines usually advise to present themselves at airports with a couple of hours In advance, enough to prevent an unforeseen event, such as a routine luggage control, bottling or tail in access to the terminal, can wait for the trip.
“I think it’s nonsense”. Those who seem to be clear are the professionals who work at airports, a priori little supporters that travelers appear 15 minutes before their shipment. The reason: the risks. “The waiting times of security controls can vary from one airport to another, and even from one day to another, within the same terminal,” Explain to the CNN A spokesman for the Dalls/Fort Whorth aerodrome. With a couple of ‘mattress’ hours a traveler can prevent “unforeseen” of the last minute for her trip.
Shaw himself confessesafter having done the experiment: “I am not a supporter of the airport theory. I think it is silly. I would not risk losing my return. It is simply nonsense.” After all, the dilemma is clear: less expected at the cost of a greater risk of staying on the ground?
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