(01-21-2025, 03:16 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(01-21-2025, 02:25 PM)plam Wrote: I added YKF segments after the fact to my YYZ-YQR trip this weekend for $0. I'm not sure it's actually a win over either driving or taking GO, but we'll see. The YYZ-YQR flight is at 9pm and I'm leaving from YKF at 3:35pm. Unfortunately getting to YKF is annoying and parking is not as cheap as I might hope. And then if I leave a car at YKF then I have to pick it up too. I'm flying back on Sunday arriving at 8pm at YYZ and taking the bus at 10pm. Again, that's super slow...
Definitely let me know if they do any bag checking on the way to Toronto. If they don’t the fact the bus goes to the airport instead of downtown is a clear unforced error.
You do the bag check inside at YKF, with weighing, tagging, etc, and they load it on the bus for you. But once you get to YYZ you have to move it from the bus to the check-in/bag drop area yourself.
They also do your ID verification at YKF. It really is treated like you're boarding a flight, so you can't get to YYZ and discover you don't have the right documents, baggage is too large, etc. Once it's accepted at YKF then YYZ is just a connection. I do suspect that they've done the setup the way they have so that the overhead of adding flights out of YKF (e.g. YKF-YVR) isn't as high, as they've already got much of the fixed infrastructure in place.