If I have risk of missing the flight, I will be pushing through the line regardless of what everyone thinks or says. Even if 100 people will be pointing and screaming at me, I’ll still push through Learned this the hard way. I had two flights scheduled: from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and then from Hong Kong to Moscow If I missed the first flight, I would also miss the second flight, meaning that I would have wasted $1000 on tickets, and I would also not have a hotel I arrived 2:30 hours before departure (which I believe is above the norm), but the queue was extremely long. I tried to pass and I had probably like 10 old Asian men and women “discipline” me. I unfortunately listened to them and stayed within the line And then the check-in closed. I was unable to board (at first). These Asians had tickets (and I asked them) to flights they were NOT going to miss, and they, instead of having empathy of passing me through, decided to make a childish scandal as if I stole their lunch I believe you do have priority over everyone else in the line if you have risk to miss a flight that is about to leave. Unless they’re in the same situation as you, you shouldn’t care about making them angry. What’s better: wasting money on the flight and committing yourself to a day of inconvenience, or making some random people angry who aren’t going to miss their flight anyway You should have enough bravado to pass through screaming and angry passengers (unless they’re also at risk of missing their flight) In the end, I bribed some reception lady to pass me through. No way of me losing a $1000 on tickets just because of some queue To those who think I should have arrived earlier - I arrived early and I was in the queue from the beginning. It seems in Taiwan they had one airline with one desk which took much more time to pass than anywhere I have been to (aside from Phuket)