I’m burning all my miles and once I’ve used them all switching to Delta. I completely agree, SWA is now a legacy carrier with the smallest network, no inter airline agreement, no premium cabin, and no international flights (except Caribbean.) Might as well just use the biggest most reliable carrier.
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Resort Airline Check In Service testing a return
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tanc
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I fly avelo recently, sucks to pay for a bag and what not but the appeal of SWA is completely gone once they add assigned seats and get rid of 2 bags.
Avelo also flies to smaller airports so I’ve been able to fly round trip for like $120 round trip with a bag. Hard to beat if you ask me.
Avelo also flies to smaller airports so I’ve been able to fly round trip for like $120 round trip with a bag. Hard to beat if you ask me.
stuart
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Expanded to all the value resorts and more details:
TheMaxRebo
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Hope this is just a first step but otherwise feels very limited.
Maybe just biased as we never fly southwest and we generally never check bags so would still have to deal with carry ons
Wonder if this is partly being funded by Southwest to encourage people to still pay for the checked bags
Maybe just biased as we never fly southwest and we generally never check bags so would still have to deal with carry ons
Wonder if this is partly being funded by Southwest to encourage people to still pay for the checked bags
ToTBellHop
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No reason this can’t expand to other resorts and carriers. But it will take time to scale up.
mattpeto
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Would love love love to see this go bi-directionally.
ToTBellHop
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It’s an entirely different staffing situation at MCO but I suspect the airport would be happy to have someone else dealing with a lot of the luggage. It may end up being the case, for Disney, that they could take care of the luggage but not provide ground transportation and still make hotel guests happy while ensuring they never leave the “bubble”. And if MCO will subsidize this, why not? There are obvious benefits to Disney, the resort hotel guests, and MCO here.
Lord Fozzinator
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- In the Parks
- No
Obviously, this is a good thing. Hopefully it is expanded and the old service can be brought back.
sullyinMT
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Hopefully this goes well and expands relatively quickly, for selfish reasons. We'll be returning to WDW for Thanksgiving on Delta, and staying in deluxe resorts on a split stay. My next hope is for package delivery to your resort, whatever the in-park shopping delivery was officially called.
I think this would be somewhat easy to bring back, even if they only do resort delivery and not front of park pick up. You would just need to partner with the resorts. At the end of the park operating day all packages are brought to a central location, next morning a runner from each resort goes to each park for pickups and brings back to resort. It would probably cost each resort an extra 6 hours of labor a day, which could probably be easily trimmed from the entire operating day and reallocated to accomplish this. Seems like it would be an easy win. Let’s see what’s next, it does look like they’re slowly trying to bring things back now that they see intent to return is dropping.
Tha Realest
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I’d rather just rent a car than start checking bags again.
doctornick
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If they simply do the luggage both ways, it would be huge. The physical transportation was the least important aspect of MDE IMHO
sullyinMT
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I agree with this 100%. Putting the yellow tags on at your home airport and having them appear in your room was one of the most magical parts of the old bubble. The busses were a nice perk, but with a small nuclear family a ride share isn’t cost prohibitive and a faster option than waiting on an MDE bus and possibly being the third or fourth stop.
ToTBellHop
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Yes the bus wait was excessive sometimes. And with Disney taking care of luggage, if you have an early flight in, you could theoretically Uber right to a park since rooms are seldom ready early, anyway. Imagine deplaning and being at a park entrance an hour later. And then bypassing the check-in desk back at MCO the last day.
plutofan15
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Agree with this 100%. Of course there are those here who disagree (which is their opinion and perfectly fine) and will let you know how wrong you are.
doctornick
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Exactly. If I can drop off my bags at my home airport and then not have to worry about them getting to my room, that can make our arrival day way better. Heck, with the water park perk in place, it would make it more likely to use that since we could get a cab/rideshare/shuttle right to a water park from the airport.
Sometimes waiting for the magic express buses could get annoying if you just missed one to your resort and it was less ideal if there were multiple resort stops for your bus.
SoFloMagic
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I think it likely helps them avoid massive lines at MCO. Imagine a line of people who now have to argue and pay instead of just handing bags over. Gonna slow them down for sure.
mattpeto
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In some scenarios, you can also get smaller/cheaper vehicles through rideshare since it's not transporting the luggage.
SamusAranX
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WaltsTreasureChest
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Inching closer