伟大的时间辩论：你多早到机场?

伟大的时间辩论：你多早到机场?

How early should you get to the airport before your flight? Sure, the official line is two hours for domestic travel and three hours for international, but we all have our own airport timing strategy.

你应该在飞机起飞前多早到达机场?当然，官方规定国内航班两个小时，国际航班三个小时，但我们都有自己的机场时间安排策略。

Go to the airport early. You'll thank me

早点去机场。你会感谢我的

David G. Allan, CNN's Editorial Director for Features (including Travel), lives in Atlanta -- home to the country's busiest airport. If you spot a 40-something-year-old man sitting at a gate there happily writing in his journal, reading a good book or writing a piece for his column The Wisdom Project, it's probably him.

大卫·g·艾伦是CNN专题(包括旅游)的编辑总监，住在亚特兰大——这里有美国最繁忙的机场。如果你看到一个40多岁的男人坐在门口快乐地写日记，读一本好书，或者为他的专栏《智慧计划》写一篇文章，那很可能就是他。

Don't we have enough stress in our lives than to manufacture extra, for no reason?

难道我们的生活中没有足够的压力来制造额外的没有理由东西吗?

When I'm cutting it close to making a flight -- as we've all experience at one point, either by design or unforeseen circumstances -- every segment between home and the boarding gate is maddening.

当我要赶飞机的时候——就像我们曾经经历过的那样，要么是故意的，要么是意外的情况——从家到登机口的每一段路都让人抓狂。

Uber drivers, security lines, airport transportation , they unwittingly keep me from making my flight.

优步司机、安检、机场运输他们不知不觉地要阻止我坐我的航班。

Rage starts with the time you leave for the airport.

从你去机场的时候就开始愤怒。

By contrast, whenever I can manage to give myself plenty of time, I actually enjoy going to the airport. I bring reading material for any waiting. I am the patron saint of security checkpoints, benevolently allowing latecomers to go ahead of me and speaking kindly to the overworked, underpaid security staff who keep us all safe. As I make my way to the gate, I listen to music or a favorite podcast if I'm traveling alone.

相比之下，只要我能给自己足够的时间，我就喜欢去机场。我带来了阅读材料，以备不时之需。我是安全检查点的守护神，仁慈地允许迟到的人走在我的前面，亲切地对那些工作过度、工资过低、保障我们所有人安全的安全人员讲话。当我走向登机口时，如果我独自旅行，我会听音乐或最喜欢的播客。

NYC-based Senior Editor Stacey Lastoe appreciates having three major airport options near her home in Brooklyn but likes to get in and out of them as quickly as possible. If she has five minutes to spare before boarding, she enjoys refilling her reusable water bottle and texting her husband to let him know she made it on time.

纽约资深编辑斯泰西•拉斯托(Stacey Lastoe)很高兴自己在布鲁克林的家附近有三个主要的机场以供选择，但她喜欢尽可能快的进出机场。如果她在登机前还有五分钟的空闲时间，她喜欢给可重复使用的水瓶加满水，并给丈夫发短信，让他知道她按时到了。

I operate always with a pretty strong sense of urgency. As such, large group outings or tours rattle me.

我做事总是很有紧迫感。因此，大型团体郊游或旅游让我感到不安。

And showing up early at the airport generally means time to kill, which means money to spend. I understand the guidelines of arriving three hours before an international flight and two hours before a domestic one, and I think it's nonsense.

早到机场通常意味着消磨时间，也意味着花钱。我理解国际航班和国内航班分别提前3小时和2小时到达的规定，我认为这是无稽之谈。

Uninterested in wandering aimlessly around JFK or LGA (my home airports) hours before takeoff, I'd much rather give my cab driver firm instructions on how much hustle he or she needs to put into the drive from Brooklyn to Queens, based on what time my flight is leaving.

我对飞机起飞前几个小时在肯尼迪机场(JFK)或LGA(我的家乡机场)漫无目的地闲逛不感兴趣，我更愿意根据我的航班起飞时间，给出租车司机明确的指示，告诉他或她从布鲁克林开车到皇后区需要多快。

An eight-time marathoner who has literally run thousands of miles in my lifetime, I can, if necessary, deftly weave through the crowds and random moving vehicle to make it to the gate before the door closes. As my favorite running instructor says during particularly grueling parts of the workout: "It feels good to run fast!"

作为一名8次马拉松选手，在我的一生中真的跑了数千英里，如果有必要，我可以在人群和随意移动的车辆中熟练地穿行，在大门关闭之前到达门口。正如我最喜欢的跑步教练在训练中特别累人的时候说:“跑得快感觉很好。”