has anyone missed their flight home because of security lines?

[LWQuestie]

In all the times I've used DME (and that is a ton) I have yet to have boarding passes left for me. I have always had to go to RAC and do them myself. Anything else is pretty much in violation of some rule...you know, the one where you are asked for ID??? Sure, some people have gotten a type of boarding pass, but I'm not at all sure that it's the final one they use at security.

I was at AKL Kidani three weeks ago. I received the DME packet the day before we checked out and the morning that we checked out, there was an envelope on the door with our Southwest boarding passes. The envelope was DME, but the letter inside was from RAC. I had EBCI. They were absolutely real boarding passes, as I didn't stop at the SW counter/kiosk upon arrival at the airport, just ate and went through security.

You don't have to provide ID to print a boarding pass (like at home or at the kiosk). You have to show ID to check bags and to pass through security to the air-side terminal.

Disney needs to stay out of airport business. Unless they are going to have a dedicated security line..and it would have to be multiple lines, nothing will change. Add to that.....while some of us here are experienced fliers, many that are at MCO are not. So even those 'dedicated' Disney guest security lines would be bogged down as well. It usually isn't the TSA that is causing the bogging down. It's those travelers that are truly clueless. They have no idea what they are doing, and when they get stopped and questioned, they either get all belligerant, or they get confused and frazzled.

Disney could, however, provide help in the organization of moving people around inside the security area, between the ID checker at the head of the line and the belt/detector at the end. The current setup is verkakte.

 

[CPT Tripss]

No clue....but the private company has been in place for a few months, and they are so pleasent...always with a Hello, Good Morning, and have a good day when leaving for the afternoon!

Who is doing the actual bag screenings/ Do you know?

 

[Rachaelt]

From my understanding...MCO is looking to dump TSA and hire a private company...they are already using them in certain places in the airport...Next time you are down at baggage claim, notice the security checkpoints leading into the bag room are NOT manned by TSA, but by a MUCH friendlier private company. Word is they will be replacing all of TSA at some point...

That will work as well as privatized prisons.

 

[goofy4tink]

Perhaps, but if you're on the meal plan, you've already paid for that meal that you're not going to eat onsite. And I'm pretty sure that those food court restaurants won't take the meal plan.

Of course this isn't an excuse, but I'm sure most folks would rather eat their last meal at a character breakfast rather than an overpriced McDonald's at the airport. Or, in other words...there's no pixie dust at the airport going home.

Sorry, not a valid excuse. If they want to have their last meal be a character meal, at WDW, then perhaps they should have chosen a different flight home. We would all like to have a nice, leisurely last meal at WDW but sometimes it just doesn't work out that way.

On our most recent trip (a few weeks ago) our SWA boarding passes were left for us in with our DME info.

We used those boarding passes all the way through security and onto the plane.

Does anyone know why it's only SW that this works for??? I guess you're all right...it's only when checking baggage that you need to show that ID, and that is usually when you would get a bp printed out....that's what I was thinking about.


I'm still waiting to see what security measures you all would prefer to see put in place. Sure, they may very well be privatization of security at baggage areas, with it happening at security lines for passengers....but how will that change the proceedures? I haven't had any unpleasant encounters with any TSA personnel....they have always been very pleasant, and on one or two occasions, over pleasant. A bit too chatty and friendly for me.
And I doubt a private company will be exempt from a lot of the same issues facing TSA personnel now....theft, crime, etc.

 

[Dax]

Who is doing the actual bag screenings/ Do you know?

TSA is still doing all of the screening of bags still

 

[crashbb]

Does anyone know why it's only SW that this works for??? I guess you're all right...it's only when checking baggage that you need to show that ID, and that is usually when you would get a bp printed out....that's what I was thinking about.

Seat selection? I can imagine complaints about people not being in the seats that they expected to be in (or people who didn't pre-select their seats), if WDW did this for other airlines.

Just a guess.

 

[aubriee]

In all the times I've used DME (and that is a ton) I have yet to have boarding passes left for me. I have always had to go to RAC and do them myself. Anything else is pretty much in violation of some rule...you know, the one where you are asked for ID??? Sure, some people have gotten a type of boarding pass, but I'm not at all sure that it's the final one they use at security.

Out of the last four times I've used DME (May 2010, Oct 2010, Dec 2010, and May 2011), I've received my boarding pass on my door three times. The only time I didn't was this past Dec when I was staying at the YC. Then I had to go down to the RAC desk and get it, when I checked my luggage in. At CSR, CBR, and POFQ it was hanging in an envelope on my door the morning of my departure. (The day before, there was a DME envelope with the DME pickup time and then early the next morning there was another envelope with our boarding passes in it.) I just dropped my luggage off at the RAC desk that morning and the only thing they gave me was a luggage claim slip, which they stuck on the envelope that had the boarding pass in it. Every time I used that boarding pass that had been on my door to get on the plane. I just showed it and my ID going through security at MCO. I'm not sure why I didn't get one at YC in Dec though. I had received them last May at CSR and again in Oct at CBR and I guess just assumed they'd stopped it, but then the first week of May at POFQ we got them hanging on our door again.

 

[LWQuestie]

I'm still waiting to see what security measures you all would prefer to see put in place. Sure, they may very well be privatization of security at baggage areas, with it happening at security lines for passengers....but how will that change the proceedures? I haven't had any unpleasant encounters with any TSA personnel....they have always been very pleasant, and on one or two occasions, over pleasant. A bit too chatty and friendly for me.
And I doubt a private company will be exempt from a lot of the same issues facing TSA personnel now....theft, crime, etc.

I don't want a change in the security procedure, per se, but I would like to see a change in the organization of the lines between the ID Check person and the bin table leading to the detectors.

The current free-for-all with the lines from the left crossing over to the right, or multiple lines feeding to a single security lane is chaos and a horrible way to handle the movement of such a large quantity of people.

I suppose, at the very least, there should be an equal number of ID checkers to Security lane, or possibly 1 ID Checker for every two security lanes. Based on recent experience (and not actual fact), it feels like it's the opposite now (multiple ID Checkers to each security lane).

 

[CPT Tripss]

TSA is still doing all of the screening of bags still

Aha! I wonder if they figure that a few polite faces in front of the Airport Security Screeners from TSA will improve PR.

Sadly the privatized layer they added doesn't address the major "problems" with MCO - the mobscenes to get people and carry-ons through screening and the behavior and attitude of the visible Airport Security Screeners themselves.

In a sense, with my travel originating out of PHL, I'm spoiled. The airline weighs, tags and then takes checked bags right at the counter. No need to schlepp them over to a TSA machine.

 

[aubriee]

Does anyone know why it's only SW that this works for??? I guess you're all right...it's only when checking baggage that you need to show that ID, and that is usually when you would get a bp printed out....that's what I was thinking about.

Seat selection? I can imagine complaints about people not being in the seats that they expected to be in (or people who didn't pre-select their seats), if WDW did this for other airlines.

Just a guess.

It is being used for other airlines. All three times I got the boarding passes on the door (CSR in May 2010, CBR in Oct 2010 and POFQ in May 2011), we were using Air Tran. This past Dec when it wasn't there, I was also using Air Tran though, so don't know why they weren't there. Maybe YC wasn't doing it for some reason?

 

[Dax]

Aha! I wonder if they figure that a few polite faces in front of the Airport Security Screeners from TSA will improve PR.

Sadly the privatized layer they added doesn't address the major "problems" with MCO - the mobscenes to get people and carry-ons through screening and the behavior and attitude of the visible Airport Security Screeners themselves.

In a sense, with my travel originating out of PHL, I'm spoiled. The airline weighs, tags and then takes checked bags right at the counter. No need to schlepp them over to a TSA machine.

More of the airlines now here at MCO are doing the weighing/tagging/and other BS now...unless you use a skycap...then you do it yourself..but I agree with you...TSA is not very pleasant in general...save a few nice ones...