Disney World’s free luggage transfer now works for JetBlue flyers

JetBlue joined Disney World’s Airport Luggage Transfer service on Sept. 24, 2026, the first Terminal C airline in the program. It covers six Disney resorts on domestic flights into Orlando.

If you fly JetBlue into Orlando and stay at the right Disney World hotel, you can now skip baggage claim.

JetBlue became the fourth airline in Walt Disney World’s Airport Luggage Transfer service on Sept. 24. It joins Southwest, American and United.

Your bags go from the plane to your Disney resort room. You go straight to the parks, or the pool, or wherever you were headed with your hands free.

Which Disney World hotels have airport luggage transfer?

Only six, and all of them are on the budget-to-midrange end:

• Disney’s All-Star Movies Resort

• Disney’s All-Star Music Resort

• Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort

• Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

• Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort

• Disney’s Pop Century Resort

Notice who’s missing. None of Disney World’s Deluxe resorts are on the list. Stay at the Polynesian or the Contemporary and you’re still hauling your own suitcase off the carousel.

It’s a strange perk to hold back from the hotels that cost the most. But that’s where the program started, and Disney hasn’t expanded past its Value resorts and Caribbean Beach yet.

How does Disney’s airport luggage transfer work?

You sign up between 30 days and 24 hours before your flight to Orlando, per Disney’s own page.

Sign up more than seven days out and luggage tags come in the mail. Wait longer than that and you won’t get tags, but Disney says your bags still get delivered.

Then you fly in, and your checked bags head to your resort instead of the baggage carousel.

Going home works in reverse. Drop your bags at Bell Services between 24 hours and four hours before your flight, and they’re checked through to your airline.

It only works on domestic flights into and out of Orlando International Airport. Size and weight limits follow your airline’s own rules.

Disney doesn’t charge extra for it, and it’s included with your stay at the participating hotels.

Why does JetBlue matter for Disney World’s luggage service?

JetBlue is the first airline in the program that flies out of Terminal C.

That’s MCO’s newest terminal. JetBlue moved in as its main tenant in October 2022. Southwest, American and United fly out of the older main terminal, so until now, the service only covered one side of the airport.

Disney Tourist Blog calls that a little surprising. The service was built partly to ease crowding at the older terminals, and now it’s reaching the newer one too.

For JetBlue customers, the upshot is simple. If you’re flying in from New York, Boston or anywhere else JetBlue serves Orlando, your bags can now skip the carousel too.

When did Disney World start the luggage transfer service?

It launched in late March 2025 at Pop Century only, then grew to the rest of the Value resorts. United and American signed on in April 2026, and Caribbean Beach came aboard later in the year.

Disney Tourist Blog also notes that Delta briefly showed up on a list of airlines back in June 2026, before it was pulled. That makes Delta the obvious guess for whoever’s next. Disney itself has only said more resorts and airlines “could be added.”

Isn’t this just Magical Express coming back?

No.

Disney’s Magical Express used to handle both your ride from the airport and your bags, for free, for every Disney resort guest. Disney shut it down in January 2022.

This new service only covers the bags. You still need to get yourself to the resort, whether that’s by Mears Connect, a rideshare or a rental car. And it only covers six hotels, not all of them.

Article compiled with the help of the Pirates & Princesses newsroom.

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Hat Tips:

• Walt Disney World Resort (accessed Sept. 25, 2026), the eligible resorts, airlines, sign-up window, tag rules and return-trip timing

• WDW News Today (Sept. 24, 2026), JetBlue’s start date and the resort list

• Disney Tourist Blog (Sept. 24, 2026), the Terminal C angle, the launch history and the Delta listing

• WDW Magic (Sept. 24, 2026), the JetBlue addition

• JetBlue (Oct. 25, 2022), its move into Orlando’s Terminal C

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