Allegiant ?'s

[wdwmaw]

Allegiant Air ~ if the times for a flight changes will they change your flight for no fee (without travel insurance they offer). Also anyone use one of the Town Car services? Which do you like and from landing what kind of timing are we looking at to resort, POP probably.

Haven't flown them since they moved to SFB from MCO. Looking at them again since Airtrain left our market, 10 minutes from our house, and boy have they changed a bunch with all their fees but still paying for everything they offer and transfers it is still half of what SWA offers and SWA is an hour from us. Just want to know some policy before we get into this.

 

[Brian Noble]

Allegiant often runs at most one flight per day---and won't necessarily even fly every day of the week---so if they change their schedule, you are more or less stuck.

 

[DebbieB]

Allegiant Air ~ if the times for a flight changes will they change your flight for no fee (without travel insurance they offer). Also anyone use one of the Town Car services? Which do you like and from landing what kind of timing are we looking at to resort, POP probably.

Haven't flown them since they moved to SFB from MCO. Looking at them again since Airtrain left our market, 10 minutes from our house, and boy have they changed a bunch with all their fees but still paying for everything they offer and transfers it is still half of what SWA offers and SWA is an hour from us. Just want to know some policy before we get into this.

Since they don't fly daily from most markets, they have been known to change the DATE of your flight. For example, from Sunday to Monday. They should allow you to cancel if that's the case.

 

[wdwmaw]

Allegiant often runs at most one flight per day---and won't necessarily even fly every day of the week---so if they change their schedule, you are more or less stuck.

But is it possible? From here they have a flight at 5pm home and on another day they may have a 5 am flight and are bad to switch days. If they change the time to a really early morning on us will they without fee let us change to the day after or day bofore. Would really hate to leave the resort at 3 am. From here they do fly at least 6 of the 7 days. Use to you could switch and even get credit for price drop.

 

[halld6479]

I fly them at least every two months and mostly always delayed a couple hours, I can count on one hand how many times my flight has left online. Last month they announced an hour from departing plane was going to be late by 5 hours and won't explain then at 4 hours out there announce a weather issue and the plane might not even land at the original airport but they would fly us somewhere in FL and then wait for weather to clear but they would tell us before we boarded where we would land as we loaded we were told probably going to original location but won"t know till we get closer, when we landed no one at that end understood what the whole problem had been cause their weather had been great all day they said. SO be flexible with this airline.

 

[wdwmaw]

Since they don't fly daily from most markets, they have been known to change the DATE of your flight. For example, from Sunday to Monday. They should allow you to cancel if that's the case.

Thank you, they use to be that way and thought it quicker to just ask here rather than navigate the site for info. We flew SWA this past trip (DEC) and just hated it. We got good rate ($138 each way non stop) but SDF is over an hour from our house, so we had parking fees. Airtran pulled out of LEX (10-15 minutes from our house) last year and we really missed the smaller airport. Our kids are bigger now so we won't have seat fees we use to feel like we had to have and really looking into shipping our luggage through UPS. With the fees of transfer or rental car, shipping luggage both ways, Allegiant is still more than half the price. Allegiant is the only non stop option for us at LEX.

 

[wdwmaw]

I fly them at least every two months and mostly always delayed a couple hours, I can count on one hand how many times my flight has left online. Last month they announced an hour from departing plane was going to be late by 5 hours and won't explain then at 4 hours out there announce a weather issue and the plane might not even land at the original airport but they would fly us somewhere in FL and then wait for weather to clear but they would tell us before we boarded where we would land as we loaded we were told probably going to original location but won"t know till we get closer, when we landed no one at that end understood what the whole problem had been cause their weather had been great all day they said. SO be flexible with this airline.

Thanks we always had good luck with them in the past just a few minutes here or there. Gotta tell ya our return flight on SWA took us 11 hours to get home on a 2 hour flight. We live 12 hours from Disney so DH kept saying we could have drove and beat the plane, (wasn't funny at the time)

 

[disneymarie]

Glad I didn't have that issue. Left on time and flights landed early. My complaint was he luggage fees for carry on, and not even a free beverage. Out of Allentown pa and Scranton Pa. The town car fee was more the a rental so I just rented ended up using it to the parks. And Walmart.

 

[KrazeeK120]

I just flew Allegiant to and then back home from Disney this past week.

I have to say, I have zero complaints. Our flight to Orlando left on time and we were delayed 30 minutes coming home (not a big deal to me).

They do charge for snacks and carry ons, but that's so they can keep the fares low. I did not take a carry on or care for a snack during the flight, so I like that they keep the fares down and then everything else is customizable from there. Why pay for something you're not going to use?

We rented a car from the airport in Sanford, which was SUPER easy.

I've flown to MCO twice and drove from home to WDW once and I have to say, flying Allegiant to Sanford and renting a car from there was the easiest traveling experience I've had when going to Disney.

 

[DonnaL]

We just used Allegiant from AVP (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre) mid December....we live literally 5 minutes from airport. We left on time at 11:00 a.m....arrived on time at Sanford at 1:30 p.m. We each had a carryon...I got a great deal on fare.....I believe it was $53 each plus the carryon, which was $15 (I think) if purchased online before reaching the airport check-in counter. We did rent a car at Sanford, which is something we haven't done for several years. We actually used a route from the airport which took us across a little north of Orlando, into Ocoee/Winter Garden and then just drove down Winter Garden/ Vineland Road to get on property....it may have been 10 minutes longer than using I-4 or 417, but, we stopped at the Publix in Windemere on 535 on the way in so it worked for us. We had no problems with Allegiant leaving from our airport.....very clean plane, nice flight crew, etc. However, for our return flight we chose not to use them since the return flight from Sanford was at 7:30 a.m. and since we were only there for a long weekend (Thurs to Sun) we didn't want to leave that early morning, so, flew Frontier (which was also about $80 pp) from MCO to ABE (Lehigh Valley)late afternoon and just rented a car there for the drive home (one hour) our cost for that rental was about the same as if we had parked at the airport for four days.

 

[Rpasko]

We just used Allegiant from AVP (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre) mid December....we live literally 5 minutes from airport. We left on time at 11:00 a.m....arrived on time at Sanford at 1:30 p.m. We each had a carryon...I got a great deal on fare.....I believe it was $53 each plus the carryon, which was $15 (I think) if purchased online before reaching the airport check-in counter. We did rent a car at Sanford, which is something we haven't done for several years. We actually used a route from the airport which took us across a little north of Orlando, into Ocoee/Winter Garden and then just drove down Winter Garden/ Vineland Road to get on property....it may have been 10 minutes longer than using I-4 or 417, but, we stopped at the Publix in Windemere on 535 on the way in so it worked for us. We had no problems with Allegiant leaving from our airport.....very clean plane, nice flight crew, etc. However, for our return flight we chose not to use them since the return flight from Sanford was at 7:30 a.m. and since we were only there for a long weekend (Thurs to Sun) we didn't want to leave that early morning, so, flew Frontier (which was also about $80 pp) from MCO to ABE (Lehigh Valley)late afternoon and just rented a car there for the drive home (one hour) our cost for that rental was about the same as if we had parked at the airport for four days.

We also live close to AVP. Was debating trying Allegiant in November. We've flown JetBlue out of Newburgh NY last time. Easy drive and small airport as well.

 

[utkscvol1]

We just flew allegiant this past weekend. We were delayed almost 3 hours due to an earlier flight being diverted due to low visibility. Flight back was on time. Took us about 35 min drive time from Sanford to pop. We will def fly them again. If you book at the ticket counter you don't get charged the $80 convince fee. We were very pleased for the price.

 

[KrazeeK120]

We just flew allegiant this past weekend. We were delayed almost 3 hours due to an earlier flight being diverted due to low visibility. Flight back was on time. Took us about 35 min drive time from Sanford to pop. We will def fly them again. If you book at the ticket counter you don't get charged the $80 convince fee. We were very pleased for the price.

Did you stay at Pop Century this weekend? I stayed there! Had a nice time.

 

[utkscvol1]

Did you stay at Pop Century this weekend? I stayed there! Had a nice time.

Yes we did unfortunately their was a huge foreign tour group in our building that found it appropriate to knock on the doors and windows about 11 Friday night and were very loud all weekend

 

[KrazeeK120]

Yes we did unfortunately their was a huge foreign tour group in our building that found it appropriate to knock on the doors and windows about 11 Friday night and were very loud all weekend

Oh no! Which building were you in? I was in the 50's section, building 2 - very end of the resort. Seemed pretty quiet.

 

[utkscvol1]

90's- bottom floor at the end by parking.

 

[loveswdw]

I feel your pain, WDWMaw. We flew AT out of LEX the last two WDW trips. We live in Louisville and loved having the MUCH cheaper non-stop option other than SW out of SDF (last two trips on AT I paid $600-$700 RT for 4). DSisIL lives in Lex not far from the airport so parking at her house was free and she just took us and picked us up. Was so sad when they pulled AT out of the LEX market. That put us back into SW being the only close non stop option.

Have you checked Cinci (CVG)? We have flown out of Cinci a couple of times. Its not cheap but they have more non stops--all Delta I believe.

I am leery to book Allegiant because we have school aged children and can't really reschedule a day if the flight is cancelled. A friend used Allegiant last year out of LEX to Ft Myers/Tampa area. They were on time the way down but her flight home got cancelled so they had to wait an extra day in FL (OH THE HORROR!). Allegiant did give them a hotel voucher for a cheap room. But what a pain if you are at the airport ready to come home and then are scrambling to find a room, etc. I wouldn't want to do that especially with kids.

My uncle who lives in FL flew Allegiant over Thanksgiving to come visit us. He flew out of Tampa into LEX and had no problems either direction. He said he'd definitely use them again.

Myself, I'll be scouring the SW website like a hawk trying to find a good deal. I've not been seeing the deals for the time frame already open though so I'm not too hopeful for our October trip.

 

[hiwaygal]

Well, after reading this thread I'm not sure if I want to go with Allegiant or not.

We've booked our stay and now I need to find flights in August. We're in the Harrisburg area and would *prefer* a non-stop flight. It is my understanding that Allegiant is the only airline that provides that in this area.

Mostly, I don't want to drive to BWI or Philly (or anywhere that's more than an hour or so). The non-stop isn't as much of an issue to me, but DH feels differently.

My big question for you folks is on the Allegiant site right now you can book flights through 8/13 - of course my dates are 8/23 and 9/1. Anyone know when they will extend their booking window?