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Originally Posted by stanleychief
I don't use MCI much, but did last Friday. We arrived for an international red-eye flight that departed at 4:16am. We arrived at the airport at 2:30. Nothing opens until 3am.. as in no TSA agents, no ticketing agents, baggage check, etc. So, pro tip.. don't bother arriving any earlier. Before security, you'll find yourself waiting with little or no seating. I felt sorry for some other people we talked to that arrived the suggested 3 hours before their flight and had nowhere to sit.
Once the security agents arrived and began letting people through, the sole X-ray machine they were running the line through broke. They had to move us all to an adjacent X-ray machine that also did not work. The third X-ray machine finally worked correctly. After arriving at the gate, just before boarding the flight, the gate attendant tried unlocking the door to the jetway. That failed, so they had to call maintenance to unlock the door from the outside.
Quite a few bugs with the new airport. I hope they get them sorted out soon. The airport does look really nice. I was fine with the old airport, and heard several other people at our gate saying the same thing. Luckily, none of the issue we ran into caused any delay to our flight.
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It's insane anyone would get a suggestion of being there 3 hours before a flight, especially the first one out.... and I've always been the type to want to get there and be done with it, but will force myself to be "only" an hour early so I can get through security in 5 minutes and sit for most of that time.
Sucks there wasn't more info on how early security opens, yet if someone told me to show up at 1am for a 4am flight, I'd probably laugh at them. Not sure I've ever spent more than 10 or 15 minutes getting bags checked and getting through security at the old airport, and that's when lines are long.