Advice: Do not, under any circumstances, book 7 a.m. flights. It sounds kind of reasonable until you add in the two hour check in, and the fact that pretty much any airport in the world is a 30 minute taxi ride from your hotel, and you'll also have to check out of aforementioned hotel, plus add a bit of time for unforeseen circumstances (moose on the freeway for example). This means that the reasonable 7 a.m. flight turns into getting up at 3.45 a.m. I can assure you that this is still the middle of the night.
So here I am, again, sitting in a mostly deserted and closed airport at 5.30 in the morning, eating a cinnamon roll (so sweet I can almost hear my teeth decaying) and typing up this blog trying to kill time 'till the flight leaves. Because even though you have to be here two hours before departure, it only ever takes 20 minutes to do all the formalities. This gives you plenty of time to spend money in the duty free shops and peruse even more maple syrup displays.
Vancouver Airport is at least very pleasant, open and airy and clean. It's also a bit odd as I left Canada, walked 10 metres and entered the USA. You go through both sets of immigration in the same place. So I'm officially in the USA but actually in Canada.
Today is going to involve a lot of airport time killing, as from here I go to Denver and have another 3 hours to kill before flying onto Rapid City, and because I've already done the immigration thing I can't even spend that time in a queue of some description.
I've just looked up at the departure board and noticed that my flight is delayed. Until 7 a.m. Which is the time I have on my ticket. What is going on now? Time to find an Un-tied Airlines Customer "Service" Operative.
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