re: Why Are People In Such a Hurry to Board a Flight?

"Yeah, but sometimes I can't afford 40 fricking minutes. I had an interview once, tons of counts put their purses in overhead, and it took literally an hour and a half for me to get my carry-on from baggage claim, barely making it to the interview in time. It's not the money, it's the time a-hole."

I've flown 60-70 commercial flights in the past six months and have not experienced this sort of delay for baggage. I guess I'm lucky, but that seems like an extreme example. With air travel if you book with little margin of error on connections and appointments it certainly can magnify things.

A lot of variability between airports as well though, I've seen the full range but not sure I've spent more than 25-30 minutes from deplane to walking out of baggage claim with my bag in all of those flights.