Pre-req:
- Passport (not expiring within 6 months)
- Booked tickets and boarding pass loaded to phone
- Booked hotels
- Travel insurance
- Online check-in completed as early as possible, not at the last minute
- If driving, book parking
- Data roaming planned
- Check for required vaccinations on government travel advice
- Arrive 2 hours before the departure time
- Power adapter
- Generally, no liquids over 100ml or pressured cans
- Cabin luggage (backpack, small suitcase etc)
- Checked in luggage (suitcases and large items)
- In-flight entertainment (game, book, movie)
Steps:
- Regularly check the gate and departure time on display boards for cancellations
- Go to Checked in luggage to drop off suitcase
- Go to Departures
- Go through Security. In most cases, remove shoes, belt, jackets, hats, and sometimes electronics, liquids in their own bag, empty your pockets. Check all pockets for water you might still have etc.
- Go through the shopping labyrinth to the gate waiting lounge
- Wait until your gate is announced then go to gate. Buy snacks or drink for the plane.
- Scan boarding pass and board the plane (may involve a bus, corridors, waiting rooms, walking outside)
- Find seat, ignore anyone who asks to swap a seat with you
- Follow instructions. Get up at least once an hour or two either for toilet or water or chat, it really helps with anxiety.
- Leave plane, double check you have everything e.g. headphones, passport, overhead bags
- Arrivals - Passport stamp, customs bags checks if required
- Collect luggage from the right conveyor for your flight
- Exit / Transport. Book Uber or get train, etc, using maps app to your hotel
