DYKWIA | 2022 edition
Sep 24, 2022, 2:28 am
#361
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: Glasgow
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Immigration queue was maybe only 30 mins (we got off plane quickly and remnants of 1 flight in front of us), a record for me, luggage was waiting, picked up car from garage via Avis Preferred and off we go.
Check in on return was quick and efficient, but we were quite early to be fair. Security wasn't too bad, and I didn't bother with the lounge as it didn't seem worth it, was fairly busy.
As a semi-regular visitor to MCO, and one time user of TPA, TPA did offer a better experience than MCO tends to, but it will be interesting to see how the experience at the new Terminal C in MCO compares.
Sep 24, 2022, 2:52 am
#362
Join Date: Nov 2004
Programs: BA Gold, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 574
I'll find out in a few weeks time - the new "collect baggage before immigration" process seems to negate the benefit in being off the aircraft first, unless the priority tagged bags get delivered first. Not holding my breath on that score.
Sep 24, 2022, 6:12 am
#363
Join Date: Feb 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL
Posts: 844
Totally off topic, but in airports in the US when you do immigration first, how do they reunite you and your bags if they don't let you past immigration?
Sep 24, 2022, 6:37 am
#364
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: UK
Programs: BA GfL & GGL, FB Platinum, MB Titanium, Hilton Diamond
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They probably escort you to the luggage carousel ensure that you pickup all your bags and check the tag numbers with the receipt before escorting your back airside to a holding room. I assume that the agents work with the airline to recheck your bags onto the next flight once sorted.
Sep 24, 2022, 7:44 am
#365
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 2,833
They probably escort you to the luggage carousel ensure that you pickup all your bags and check the tag numbers with the receipt before escorting your back airside to a holding room. I assume that the agents work with the airline to recheck your bags onto the next flight once sorted.
Sep 24, 2022, 7:50 am
#366
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They probably escort you to the luggage carousel ensure that you pickup all your bags and check the tag numbers with the receipt before escorting your back airside to a holding room. I assume that the agents work with the airline to recheck your bags onto the next flight once sorted.
Sep 24, 2022, 7:53 am
#367
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Sep 24, 2022, 8:01 am
#369
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I think it was quite clear the post was speculation in basis only. I don't see any further clarification is required. Take the post on the basis it was given, we all have a guess on questions sometimes, nothing wrong with that as long as it is clear that's what it is.
Sep 24, 2022, 9:30 am
#370
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 1,757
This IS the DYKWIA thread, right? I had to check....
Sep 24, 2022, 10:07 am
#371
Join Date: Jul 2014
Posts: 124
I have flown to BOS and JFK using a visa, the chap at the kiosk doesn't actually decide whether to let you in, you're escorted to a small dark room thats off to one side of the baggage reclaim carousels. There a bored looking immigration officer goes through your paperwork, often seemingly surprised that you're not from central or south America, stamps your visa and you're off to collect your bags (or in my case, find the husband who has already collected the bags and gone through the arrivals hall as he is desperate to get outside and have a cigarette.
If I'm paying rather than using Avios, I fly via DUB and pre boarding immigration.
If I'm paying rather than using Avios, I fly via DUB and pre boarding immigration.
Sep 24, 2022, 5:36 pm
#375
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Canada / AZ
Programs: BA Blue
Posts: 27
They probably escort you to the luggage carousel ensure that you pickup all your bags and check the tag numbers with the receipt before escorting your back airside to a holding room. I assume that the agents work with the airline to recheck your bags onto the next flight once sorted.
PS Thankfully they let me in...after I told them 'who I was' !