Orlando Airport

waghag

Has anyone arrived at this airport recently. It's a complete shambles. We got out of immigration after an hour , got the bags finally only to have to put the bags back through and go through the x-ray machine again ourselves.
We had bought sunscreen at Dublin in duty-free and they took it off us and gave us an awful earful about how you couldn't take liquids on the plane. The cream was still in the Dublin airport bag! I've never been screened on arriving at Atlanta, JFK, Newark,LAX. If that's the case they'd want to let you know in Dublin when you're checking in that you can't buy anything in Duty Free. A woman behind us had to give them a bag of moisturisers/after-sun etc.. that must have cost her E50.

rossie1977

yeah arrived and left but via internal american flights in march/april this year so check-in and departure was pretty much a breeze compared to what i experienced back in 2005 when arriving from dublin when we had to go through security on the way in

they are convinced in orlando that disney is the next big target (at least thats what someone working in the travel industry in town told me in 2005) and all foreigners flights are suspects

ncmc

waghag wrote: »

Has anyone arrived at this airport recently. It's a complete shambles. We got out of immigration after an hour , got the bags finally only to have to put the bags back through and go through the x-ray machine again ourselves.
We had bought sunscreen at Dublin in duty-free and they took it off us and gave us an awful earful about how you couldn't take liquids on the plane. The cream was still in the Dublin airport bag! I've never been screened on arriving at Atlanta, JFK, Newark,LAX. If that's the case they'd want to let you know in Dublin when you're checking in that you can't buy anything in Duty Free. A woman behind us had to give them a bag of moisturisers/after-sun etc.. that must have cost her E50.

I've flown through MCO twice and never had a problem. I thought it was quite a nice clean airport, all airports are a pain in the ass to a certain extent, but this is one of the better ones I have been through. Was your sunscreen in a sealed bag? If not, then they were well within their rights to take it off you. I thought if you bought items in duty free, you could arrange to get it put on the plane and then collect it when you dis-embarked?

waghag

It was in the Dublin duty free shopping bag . Once you pass security in Dublin you are allowed to buy creams , water etc.. I have never been checked entering any other airport. Some people had bought whiskey , perfume etc. in Dublin duty free and were given the items on disembarking the plane in Orlando, they too had a lot of hassle explaining this to customs. Just thought it very strange.

Waxing the Gaza

rossie1977 wrote: »

disney is the next big target

Ya the first the WTC then the Pentagon and now the last shining symbol of capatalism left in America......Disney World!! :)You'd wonder how Americans get these notions into their heads.

rossie1977 wrote: »

they were well within their rights to take it off you.

Its a disgrace that you can be sold an item in one airport and have it taken off you in another, I've heard of similar incidents with people having expensive bottles of whiskey taken from them when connecting through airports in the US. Rules are rules i know but they should be implemented fairly and sensibly.

keezer

When we flew to orlando (Mco) with a layover in Philly, when disembarking the plane we where told to put all duty free into our cases if we had a connecting flight when we colected them as they would be conviscated in Mco

waghag

We didn't have a connecting flight though and the Aer Lingus flight was the only one re-checked as far as I could see. I mean can you imagine arriving home back in dublin , collecting your bags and then having them taken off you and you're sent back through security where they take your booze, perfumes etc.. and you're not even getting on another plane!