If you are leaving from Atlanta, we suggest you should leave Clemson at least four hours before your scheduled flight. If you are leaving from GSP, we suggest two hours. We also suggest that you allow at least two hours between your scheduled arrival and a downtown meeting. This, of course, should be adjusted if the airport to downtown time is longer than one hour under normal conditions. Air delays are way up this year from last year and adding extra time is only prudent.
Load factors are lower for the earliest flights of the day, so boarding passengers is quicker.
Air Traffic delays are lessened with fewer planes in the sky. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms are never a problem. So our best advice is to book the earliest flight each way if your schedule permits. This is indeed revolutionary and we will watch this with interest. It does seem to have some good credibility, already, with a Chairman who was the former Chief Financial Officer for Northwest Airlines from 1996-1998.