That's the deceptive thing about RIC... Nine times out of 10, you're going to whisk right through the security.. but then 10% of the time you show up a half hour before your flight and the line for security is inexplicably long.

TBH if I were writing a book about showing up early at Richmond Airport I would have the character recount a story about how they had been burned and so now they just show up 3 hours early and go to Caribou coffee and people watch.