When attendance falls, Disney does things like reduce CM hours. They run attractions at lower capacity with fewer cars. They reduce the windows open at CS restaurants.As per my earlier post...The parks are BUSY, I've been here 3 weeks and Disney and Universal are packed..very very busy.
Disney are reducing prices to get thousands more into the busy parks, so the lines get even longer and voila, they sell more G+ and LL+.
It's a clever move and one which will be highly profitable. They know that if they can increase that stand by queue from 90 minutes to 120 minutes, it will be a breaking point for some, pushing them into buying G+ and LL+.
What I do think is lower in sales is the Resprt rooms. People have been financially pushed to the brink at the Parks and so people are deciding to still go to Disney but stay off property.
We look at short lines and think isn't that great. They look at short lines and see it as a waste of money. As such, it's very difficult to quantify crowds by how things feel on the ground.
You also have no idea what crowds are in all 4 parks at a time.