Checking bags at layover airport
Jun 19, 2022, 2:45 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2007
Programs: DL DM
Posts: 1,079
With your approach, you could have a problem during IROPs. Bringing the bags along with you allows you to reroute if needed on your trip from MCO. Not necessarily likely, but you could find yourself in a bind. Even a delay, albeit a long one, could become a problem.
Jun 19, 2022, 3:01 pm
#18
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: ATL
Posts: 1,910
Good point. But we're hoping to have IRROPS covered, as worse case we could jump in a rental car at MCO and make the 6 hour drive to Atlanta, get our bags, and head to ATL in time for that flight (hopefully they let us on without taking the delayed/cancelled first leg). But you've made me realize, I'm also gonna book a backup MCO-ATL flight on Southwest just in case; thanks!
Jun 20, 2022, 7:37 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,097
Good point. But we're hoping to have IRROPS covered, as worse case we could jump in a rental car at MCO and make the 6 hour drive to Atlanta, get our bags, and head to ATL in time for that flight (hopefully they let us on without taking the delayed/cancelled first leg). But you've made me realize, I'm also gonna book a backup MCO-ATL flight on Southwest just in case; thanks!
Jun 20, 2022, 8:03 am
#20
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: ATL
Posts: 1,910
Edit: Ah, I get it now, you're saying IF it's known early in the morning that MCO-ATL is fine (before we take that leg) but also known that ATL-DUB is cancelled...got it
Last edited by dmbolp; Jun 20, 2022 at 8:08 am