{"id":8005,"date":"2015-05-21T09:32:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T09:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:56:58","slug":"always-be-checked-into-your-flight-two-hours-ahead-of-your-flight-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/always-be-checked-into-your-flight-two-hours-ahead-of-your-flight-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Always be checked into your flight two hours ahead of your flight schedule!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"IMG_20150508_121938278\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_20150508_121938278-168x300.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"296\" \/>They do not call me late Tate for nothing.<\/p>\n<p>My flight was scheduled May 7, 2015 at 12:20.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the night before I had timed the trip perfectly to the airport from my friend&#8217;s house in Miami, boy was I so wrong. I woke up at 9:30 that lovely Thursday morning and was on my merry way at 10:15. Since it was my first time in Miami I did not expect there to be any traffic on the road at 10:30 a.m. but again I was proven wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It took me 30 minutes to get to the airport instead of 15 and to return my rental car was a nightmare that was an extra 45 minutes just to drive around Miami airport just looking for the place to drop my car off.<\/p>\n<p>By this time it is 11:00 a.m. and I&#8217;m running at this point to get to the desk to get my boarding pass. When I finally arrive I&#8217;m 5 minutes past my hour mark to check a bag, therefore I missed my flight.<\/p>\n<p>After 2 hours of being on the phone with 3 wonderful ladies, the International Programs director, the study abroad representative, and the faculty leading the program, we got everything resolved.<\/p>\n<p>I was so relieved and went straight to the gate at 3:00 p.m. and I didn&#8217;t move until they called us to board the plane at 6:10.<\/p>\n<p>As I get comfortable in my 3 seats, I take the time to review my further instructions I need to follow as soon as I get off the plane and how I will get to my\u00a0\u00a0group. At 7:45 p.m. I finally arrive in San Jose, Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future advice: Always be checked into your flight two hours ahead of your flight schedule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They do not call me late Tate for nothing. My flight was scheduled May 7, 2015 at 12:20. I thought the night before I had timed the trip perfectly to the airport from my friend&#8217;s house in Miami, boy was I so wrong. I woke up at 9:30 that lovely Thursday morning and was on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/always-be-checked-into-your-flight-two-hours-ahead-of-your-flight-schedule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Always be checked into your flight two hours ahead of your flight schedule!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-8005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-costa-rica-vet-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions\/10307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}