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Indeed! I think cross training works better when the job functions are similar. In this instance, allowing transportation people (who are already familiar with safety protocols, procedures, etc) to be cross certified on buses (and whatever other vehicles they are driving). But to take a...

gotcha! Thanks for the clarification!!!

Tesla seems like the perfect sponsor of Test Track. I always thought the change from the more mechanical, nuts & bolts TT, to the more tronish virtual car TT took the whole attraction away from real life motor vehicles. GM seems to be more in line with the original incarnation of the...

Cross Training isn't a bad idea in business. But It definitely pulls from other departments leaving them short-handed, but the hope is that it's a temporary shortage. I just don't know how feasible it is to cross-training people to drive buses, given that it requires a different sort of...

Fair enough!! Then I need to apologize to you for thinking you misinterpreted my email, as I misinterpret yours! :oops:

Chances are they are waiting until late friday afternoon to make the announcement, both to get the news out to TMs and avoid people currently in the park from seeing the news on twitter and tearing their masks off friday evening. It's probably happen anyway...

:rolleyes: if you actually read my post, you'd know that I wasn't playing the "I know how to run a business game" - I actually stated quite the opposite by detailing that I was *not* privy to WDW and Disney's internal metrics....I was paraphrasing someone's comment that they felt Disney was...

That sort of "Oh, Im just trying to catch up to my party" crap happens all the time with the regular old standby lines as well. and yes, that steamed my ears as well. That being said, and I hate to say it, but any time there has been an advantage - guests have sought to exploite it. Even...

Alot of those FP queues could be quickly modified for standby spillover (though I also acknowledge some wouldn't be as easy). However, I don't think they're going that route, so it's a moot point. There will definitively be some variety of priority line. The big question we're all waiting on...

Yup! Reminds me of back in the original fastpass days. You recall that when TSMM first opened up? The CMs would line everyone up on Hollywood blvd, right in front of Hollywood and Vine. Then when the rope drop occurred, it would be a running of the bulls to the TSMM fastpass machines (or...

I kinda have to disagree with you there. For the past several years, I'd receive reminder emails from WDW anywhere from 7 hours to 3 days after my ADR and FP+ windows opened....and I would NEVER receive an email before. It became a running joke in my family, if I booked ADRs or FPs when...

Laying them off or something else? If its the former, see my comment below. I'm not sure we can fault them for making that decision. I don't know. People tend to charge in with torches lit when WDW does things like layoffs. Honestly, no one knows what the right move was except WDW. There...

You're not kidding. Im generally in WDW around easter. One year (I think 2017), we ended up skipping Disney and doing Universal instead. We were at the portofino, so we had express passes. Every day, we woke up and said "where do we want to go?" (unheard of at WDW). We floated in and out of...

Disagree. Both do.

Those are pro-level WDW spreadsheets (I might steal that layout! ;) ) Let me follow up by saying I enjoy the planning to a certain extent as well. I guess you can say that you learn to love what's good for you. So I've accepted the fact that I have to be ready to go with a cup of coffee and...

honest question. How many WDW trips did you do before 160-day ADRs and same question for FP+? ...and a pair of follow up questions: - Have you found that the quality/diversity of food has been better/same/worse since before 180-day ADRs? - Have you found that you can get more/same/less...

What makes this crazier - is that WDW (and all of Orlando) is in the middle of a massive bus driver shortage. They can't hire back enough experienced drivers because when they let them all go, they went on to get better paying delivery and long haul jobs. So they have to resort to training new...

No way! We do it because we have no other choice. For a Disney trip, I get up at the butt-crack of dawn 180 days and 60 days out from the start of my trip and I hate it....because when you do that, you're likely locked into those times/locations. The problem is, that far out you can't easily...

No worries, sir!! ...and no apology needed. We've all fallen for this stuff. Heck, when I read the article, I had a few minutes of 'holy crap, its end times' going on in my head!

Quite honestly, they can keep the park reservation system running even with full capacity limits....and when that happens, it's no longer about *restricting* the number of people that go through the turnstiles, but *predicting* the number of people that go through the turnstiles...