MCO appeals to people who like glitz even if it takes gawd knows how long to get through the system! LBArules brings up a very good point wrt the baggage loaders refusing to work during the frequent thunderstorms. We routinely used to get up to an hours delay for our bags which after a 9 hour flight wasn’t much fun. MCO is almost as much of a theme park experience as Disney! The holiday makers must find the post flight delays tedious but I dread to think how it must pee off the business passengers!
Interestingly enough I was having lunch with SkyCruiser yesterday (he was on a LHR layover) and a friend of his joined us who is an ex-BA now EAL B742 skipper. He was saying he would rather operate into Sanford rather than MCO anyday. ‘Much better airport’ were his words.
The statement about the charters being in a different terminal to Virgin is not correct. You would invariably see Caledonian aircraft parked next door to Virgin aircraft in the early 90’s.
As a further point of interest MCO also suffers more from ‘PPL wants to play with the big boys’ syndrome. An awful lot of UK PPL’s travel to Florida for hours building during which they take advantage of the freedom to fly their spamcans into international airports at little or no cost. MCO is the local Mecca for these guys which can make operating commercial aircraft into there a pain in the ar5e.
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