- Travel expert Gilbert Ott advises booking flights early to avoid delays.
- The best airports for early flights are well located and have hotels and good food.
- In the worst cases, hotel and restaurant options are limited – if any – and the cities are located away from tourist attractions.
Nobody wants to get up before sunrise to get to the airport, but taking the first flight has its advantages, says Gilbert Ott, a travel expert who flies about 200,000 miles each year.
Ott, who shares his insights on air travel on his blog God bless the points, told Business Insider that in his experience, the earliest flights are the least delayed.
“If it’s one of the first flights of the day, most of those planes park at that gate overnight. They don’t arrive that early and they don’t get cleaned and moved,” he said.
Ott said some airports can make an early flight a breeze, while others can make your morning flight feel more like torture.
Based on his experience, he told BI which airports are best and worst suited for a morning departure.
