I remember, it was March 2018.
We had a flight to Malta.
Since we are geeks and don't like to be tight on time, we always leave for the airport a little earlier than anyone else would 🙂
it's better for me to sit at the terminal for an hour and wait for check-in than to worry about being late somewhere along the way (although, there were also such situations, when we barely made it to check-in...).
and so, quite early, we take a taxi to the airfield. I accept the suggestion of the taxi driver (who happens to be an acquaintance of mine), that we take the ring road and not through the city, as there are some works on the highway...
And before the exclusion for the airport, a traffic accident. And a long line.
We stand in line, 15 minutes, 20 minutes pass.
we didn't wait to sit for half an hour, we took our suitcases out of the car and started walking to the airport. We didn't make a mistake, an acquaintance told me later, he waited in his lap for more than an hour and a half.
If we had stayed in the car, we would have had a time crunch again. Like this, we walked for half an hour and were at the check-in just when we were supposed to be.