Resort Airline Check In Service testing a return

lewisc

Well-Known Member
Suggesting that airline checkin is a “bigger” benefit than the shuttle every butt in from OIA with no added cost
Resort bag check can't be done independently. Mears offers similar bus service. Incoming luggage is expensive to do independently. Increased risks of luggage being stolen.

So if other airlines are going to be in on this service, because you check in Southwest via the app to get a good seat and get your boarding pass then, with other airlines will we be able to get a boarding pass when we check our bags?

Yes, you should be able to get a printed boarding pass. They can do anything the counter does at the airport.
The service will NOT print your BP. They are functioning like a bag drop. They can't do anything the counter does.
 

Ayla

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Resort bag check can't be done independently. Mears offers similar bus service. Incoming luggage is expensive to do independently. Increased risks of luggage being stolen.




The service will NOT print your BP. They are functioning like a bag drop. They can't do anything the counter does.
Then that is a change from what they used to do/be. It was a check-in counter just like at the airport, not just a baggage drop. I always had a boarding pass printed when I dropped off bags.
 

Sirwalterraleigh

Premium Member
Resort bag check can't be done independently. Mears offers similar bus service. Incoming luggage is expensive to do independently. Increased risks of luggage being stolen.
Until convinced otherwise…im gonna go with the theory this is Mco financing the bag transfer because they are logistically overrun and have no better options. And Disney is going along with it.

Until a month from now…when there could be tumbleweed rolling through terminal B
 

ToTBellHop

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Until convinced otherwise…im gonna go with the theory this is Mco financing the bag transfer because they are logistically overrun and have no better options. And Disney is going along with it.

Until a month from now…when there could be tumbleweed rolling through terminal B
Tumbleweed? C’mon. With cool kid summer, it’ll be slammed! Characters during early entry?!?!
 

lewisc

Well-Known Member
Until convinced otherwise…im gonna go with the theory this is Mco financing the bag transfer because they are logistically overrun and have no better options. And Disney is going along with it.

Until a month from now…when there could be tumbleweed rolling through terminal
Not a theory,.MCO is paying $6.75 per bag to qualified companies which deliver the bags to the offsite sorting facility.
Craig created Bags, Inc. It was sold in 2018. Craigs new company started 5 years after the sale. Did a non compete expire?
 

lewisc

Well-Known Member
This isn't bell services.
I maybe wrong, I think bell services employees are handling the bag drop.
The article says you need to show your boarding pass and an ID at luggage assistance.

I believe the old service used employees from the airport who could check you in and print your boarding pass.

This seems different from what I’m reading but still much preferable to hauling the bags to the airport and checking them in there.
The old system used Bags, Inc employees. They were similar to curbside skycaps
 

Bill in Atlanta

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So I guess the thought is to trial run it at Pop Century, work out the kinks, and then expand to other resorts/airlines. Any word on how soon that could happen? Thinking about a trip this fall and a return of M.E. would be fantastic news!
 

James J

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In the Parks
No

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