Why did you arrive two hours early for the flight?

The purpose of 2 hours in advance is to fully prepare for boarding and avoid missing the flight due to being rushed.

Flight process

⒈ Arrive at the airport. You have to pay attention to the time, because airlines require check-in to stop 30 minutes before flight departure, so it is best to arrive at the airport 1 hour before departure.

⒉ Go through the check-in procedures (that is, change the boarding pass). Check which counter your flight is at. The airport has a display screen telling you which flight is at which counter. Find the corresponding counter and hand your ticket and ID card to the airport check-in staff. If you have large luggage, check it here. Baggage under 20 kilograms in economy class is free. Be careful not to carry prohibited items in your checked luggage. After completing the check-in procedure, the check-in staff will return the passenger coupon, boarding pass, luggage ticket, and ID card to you.

⒊Go through the security check. Go to the security check channel. There is a security check counter at the entrance of the channel. You hand the passenger coupon of your ticket, boarding pass, and ID card to the security inspector. The security inspector will stamp the boarding pass if there is no problem. Then go through the security gate. The items you carry with you must pass through the X-ray security inspection machine next to the security gate, and you must pass through the security gate yourself. If there is no problem with the security check, enter the terminal.

⒋Waiting for flight. After passing the security check, look at the boarding gate indicated on your boarding pass for your flight, find the terminal corresponding to the boarding gate, and wait in the terminal at the gate number. The airport will have a display showing the location of each terminal. If you are not sure, you can ask the airport service staff. Find the terminal and rest there, waiting for the announcement to board the plane. If you smoke, you can smoke in the smoking room. Remember to listen to the radio.

⒌Boarding. After hearing the boarding announcement, a service staff will tear up the boarding pass at the boarding gate. You should go to the boarding gate and hand the boarding pass to the service staff. The service staff will tear off a small piece of the boarding pass and return the other parts to the boarding pass. You, just follow others on the plane with your boarding pass.

⒍Find the location on the plane. Your seat is marked on the boarding pass, such as 5D, 11C, etc. The number represents the row, and the seats in each row are A, B, C, D, E, F. The seat number on the aircraft is marked on the luggage compartment wall (above the seat). Find your seat, buckle up, and turn off your phone before takeoff.

⒎Meals. During the flight, the airline distributes free drinks. For long flights, during meal time, free meals are provided (just a box lunch, which is not delicious and the quantity is small). For short flights, snacks are provided.

⒏Arrived. After the plane arrives at the destination, if you have checked luggage, remember to pick it up. There will be a baggage pick-up area on the way to the exit.

Extended information

Check-in

⑴ Be sure to complete the formalities half an hour before the plane takes off. Therefore, it is best to arrive at the airport in advance according to the situation, especially It’s the Golden Week, Spring Festival and other times when there are huge crowds. Some airports are very strict and will not allow you to go through it when the time is up, such as Beijing Airport.

⑵ Friends who prefer a window seat can ask the check-in staff to arrange a window seat for you when changing your boarding pass. Generally, there is no problem, unless you arrive very late and the seat is assigned to someone else. .

⑶ When checking in luggage, some airports will charge an insurance fee of about 10 yuan, such as Fuzhou Airport; if your suitcase is not locked, some airports will force you to spend 5 yuan to buy a small lock. , such as Guangzhou Airport.

⑷When carrying a fruit knife, it is best to put it in your checked luggage, otherwise 90% of the time it may be confiscated. In addition, small animals cannot be brought on board a plane, and a quarantine certificate is required to check them in, which is quite troublesome. Potted plants and flowers are acceptable.

⑸ The checked voucher is usually affixed to the ticket. After arriving and taking out the luggage, a staff member will check whether the checked voucher and the label on the luggage correspond to each other. Be careful not to take someone else's by mistake and lose your own.

⑹ Flight delays or cancellations

Generally, as long as the flight is delayed, the airport will provide free drinks or meals during meal time (it seems that those at night are more likely to be taken care of than those at noon). If the evening flight tells you that it cannot fly that day, it depends on the situation. It is due to aircraft maintenance, flight deployment, etc. The airport will provide food and accommodation. Due to weather, emergencies, air traffic control and other reasons, you can only refund or change the ticket. In this case, the airport does not care about food and accommodation.

⑺Flight overbooking

It means that the number of tickets sold on a certain flight exceeds the number of seats on the aircraft. In order to protect their own profits, almost every airline has a certain percentage of overbooking to ensure the utilization of flight seats. Foreign airlines generally control the proportion of overbooked tickets to about 3% of sold tickets, while China stipulates that overbooked tickets cannot exceed 5%.

Reference Aircraft_Baidu Encyclopedia