Advice on possibly flying to companies on the same trip

[Julieh22]

Due to not wanting to make my son miss school, I am wanting to fly to WDW with Allegiant (the flight leaves at 6:20 pm). Although, I like Airtran and being able to check-in for the flight back home at the hotel.

Has anyone ever bought one-way tickets and flown two different companies? Are their any Cons to do this? There is no price difference.

 

[Bridge203618]

I am doing it this trip. I can't say for sure that I have done it but I know I have booked tickets for my mom this way and she hasn't complained (which is a miracle in itself). Since nowadays they don't pentalize you for one way tickets (via price like they used to). I see NO cons. I am sure there are some but I just don't know what they would be...

 

[wdwmaw]

We are also considering doing this for our fall trip we love the travel times and like you we can check bags at resort with airtran. We have never done this

 

[TaraPA]

We just did this last week for your very same reasons. Airtran left at 4pm so the kids would have had to miss a half day of school. So I went down on Allegiant which didn't leave until later in the evening, then booked Airtran back home. No cons at all!

 

[wdwmaw]

How did you do with the seat assignments? Did you pre select or wait to the 24 hour mark?

 

[TaraPA]

I'm too cheap to pay for seat assignments! My kids are 9 & 12 so it's not a huge issue for us if we're not seated together, so I wasn't really worried about it. For the Allegiant flight down, we checked-in at the airport 2 hours ahead of time. That's when Allegiant assigns seats if you haven't paid for them. They do not allow you to choose seats at 24-hour online check-in like many other airlines do. In fact, with Allegiant, you can't even use 24-hour online check-in at all if you haven't paid for seats. You have to go to the counter & check in at the airport. There was no problem seating the 3 of us together. For the trip home on Airtran, I came across $30 in coupon codes that I used to pay for seat assignments ahead of time, so we did have confirmed seats on that flight, and for free!

 

[TheWog]

Yes, people do this all the time. No cons to unless you like a particular airline.

 

[Pembo]

We did it. Flew SWA on credits to MCO, and flew home on Continental from TPA. It was the best bargain for us.

 

[wdwmaw]

Thanks TaraPA very helpful. We have never flown either airline and with my kids older than yours sitting together is not a problem either