A week out
The airline’s email Your trip confirmation
Skycap
Departs in 7 days
Nov 15 at 3:21 PM from Chicago
The whole trip on one map, both flights and the stop in Denver, a week before anyone starts packing.
The family’s day
Two kids, two checked bags and one hand for the phone. The app gives you one number at a time: when to leave, when bags close, when you’ll be outside and which belt. The reason sits under each one.
Time to leave
Most trackers Departs 2:26 PM
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Time to leave for ORD
Here's why: a 42 min drive at that hour, 10 min to park, 20 min at bag drop, security usually 30+ min, and 55 min to walk to the gate and board.
The reason comes with the time, so the hallway argument can be about shoes. Parking and bag drop are in it because you said you’re checking bags.
Parking and bag drop
You, in the garage “Which level were we on?”
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Remember your row: take a photo
Bag drop: 10–20 min. Closes about 8:31 PM.
Photograph the tag
Two photos you’ll want on the way home, asked for at the moment you can take them. They stay on your phone.
At the airport
Most trackers Departs 7:44 PM · On time
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Boards in 1 hr 21 min
Bags by 6:59 PM.
Bag drop closes before boarding does, so that time sits right under the boarding time, where you already look.
Landed
Most trackers Landed
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At the curb about 3:35 to 3:55 PM
A checked bag adds about 10 min.
How are you leaving?
The bags are counted into the time you’ll be outside, and the taxi in, your row and the walk are each shown. Send that window to whoever is driving.
Bags
You, at baggage claim “Which belt?”
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At the gate, belt 7
The belt number is on the Lock Screen once the airline posts it, so nobody has to find a screen in the terminal with two kids in tow.
The other days
The same app, read by someone else.
- Frequent flyer and crew A word when what you should do has changed, and quiet the rest of the time.
- Nervous flyer The same plain answer every time you check, and the cabin’s sounds named before they come.
- Connecting international A connection clock with passport control, your bag and security again in it.
- Plane lover, window seat Which side the sunset is on, and the runway in your log afterwards.
- Picking someone up When they land and where to wait, from a link with nothing to install.
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The screens are from the app, with example flights. Times are estimates, and the app says so.