twodogs
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 20, 2012
We just returned Monday from MCO to DFW. Flight was at 1:33pm. We arrived at the airport before noon, had to return the rental car (there are no easy gas stations near the airport that we could find coming from WDW, so we actually had to drive through the aiport and get gas on the other side). Easy rental car return and walk over. Security was a disaster. We all had TSA Pre check except DH, who has Concierge Key with AA (highest status, above Exp Platinum) and was traveling first class so had Priority. At MCO Priority is just a shorter line to get your ID checked, but then dumps you into the general security line to wait for the scanners. With TSA Pre, we got through in about 10-15 minutes, but TSA agents were terribly rude to my parents. Shameful. Anyway, my husband nearly missed the flight as it took an hour for him to get through security, and that was after they opened an additional lane right in front of him (would have been 1.5 hours otherwise).
Our flight was delayed by 2 hours due to weather in Dallas, so he made it but it was crazy. That security is ridiculous. I don’t know if there is any other security entrance we could have used besides the one between terminals A and B (we were flying out of B)? Does anyone know?
We did fly into Tampa in December because the flights were cheaper and rental car was cheap. That airport was a dream date in terms of security (took one minute) and crowds. After being in crowds at the parks, I was glad TPA was not like MCO. We will strongly consider TPA in the future, though the drive from MCO to the Beach Club was very quick (around 25 minutes), and the drive from TPA was around 1 hour 15 in pretty light traffic. But it was much less stressful at the airport.
If your trip is some time in the future, I would strongly consider getting TSA pre for your entire party. It helps a LOT at MCO. And don’t count on being given it any longer, as they have severely cut back the “free” TSA pre since those who paid for it were complaining about longer lines with folks in the line who didn’t know what they were doing.
Our flight was delayed by 2 hours due to weather in Dallas, so he made it but it was crazy. That security is ridiculous. I don’t know if there is any other security entrance we could have used besides the one between terminals A and B (we were flying out of B)? Does anyone know?
We did fly into Tampa in December because the flights were cheaper and rental car was cheap. That airport was a dream date in terms of security (took one minute) and crowds. After being in crowds at the parks, I was glad TPA was not like MCO. We will strongly consider TPA in the future, though the drive from MCO to the Beach Club was very quick (around 25 minutes), and the drive from TPA was around 1 hour 15 in pretty light traffic. But it was much less stressful at the airport.
If your trip is some time in the future, I would strongly consider getting TSA pre for your entire party. It helps a LOT at MCO. And don’t count on being given it any longer, as they have severely cut back the “free” TSA pre since those who paid for it were complaining about longer lines with folks in the line who didn’t know what they were doing.