<p class="ingestion featured-caption">A flight expert shared his favorite — and least favorite — airports for early morning flights.Carola Frentzen/picture alliance via Getty Images, Zul Trionggono Edoardo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Travel expert Gilbert Ott advises booking early flights to avoid delays.</li><li>The best airports for early flights are well-located and have hotels and good food.</li></ul><p>No one wants to wake up before the sun comes up to get to the airport, but taking the first flight out has its perks, says Gilbert Ott, a travel expert who flies roughly 200,000 miles a year.</p><p>Ott, who shares his insights on air travel on his blog <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.godsavethepoints.com/"><u>God Save the Points,</u></a> told Business Insider that in his experience, the <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-avoid-holiday-travel-chaos-airport-crowds-flight-delays-2023-10">earliest flights are the least likely to be delayed</a>.</p><p>"If it's one of the first flights of the day, most of those planes are parked overnight at that gate. They're not arriving that early and getting cleaned and changed," he said.</p><p>Ott said some airports can make an early flight a breeze, and others are more likely to make your morning flight feel like a drag.</p><p>Based on his experiences, he shared with BI the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/best-and-worst-airports-for-layover-connecting-flight-2024-5">best and worst airports</a> to fly out of first thing in the morning.</p>