How early to arrive at Calgary airport?

[Disneymooners93]

How early should we arrive to get through check-in, security, customs at Calgary? We have a 7:40 flight and will have three kids - 8, 7, and 2.

Just 3 more days!!

 

[drag n' fly]

How early should we arrive to get through check-in, security, customs at Calgary? We have a 7:40 flight and will have three kids - 8, 7, and 2.

Just 3 more days!!

No later than 6am and that's pushing it. Preferably 5:30. We took a 6am flight to Disneyland once (never again!) and when we arived at 4:50 they were lined up so long we barely made our flight. US customs is notoriously slow for holding up the line. HTH

 

[Shelebeen]

Customs does not open until 5:00 or 5:30 - so I would check with them as to what time they open. When we flew to LA in October, we had the 6:30 am flight, we arrived at the airport at 4:30 am and ended up having to wait in line for them to open up customs... we could have easily arrived a little later.

 

[SaraMc]

Normally for international flights dont you have to be there 2-3 hours before. I know that's how it was at Pearson.

 

[drag n' fly]

Normally for international flights dont you have to be there 2-3 hours before. I know that's how it was at Pearson.

I was checking the Air Canada website for our own curiousity. It states to or from the US 90 minutes. I honestly do not believe that is enough time unless you are doing what we are doing and printing our boarding passes at home and using the self serve express kiosks. I would definitely say 2 hours for Calgary if going the regular check in but no more than that. Maybe bump it up a bit for the holiday season. With Pearson or terminal changes defintely three.

 

[DCA_MillionaireFreak]

And it's trial and error, because both times we went to DL, customs was not crowded at all, and we ended up waiting at the gate for quite a while.

 

[drag n' fly]

It really make a difference when your flight leaves. The DL trips we took were so crowded it was insane. We took the AA flights that leave at 6am. I swear I will never take these again just to save money.