You have to remember that many of those currently using DAS are doing so under the old system, so no change. Only those that applied for a DAS after 5/20 and are in the parks now are working with the new system. You probably won't feel the full effect until around July.
13 percentage point drop actually equates to a 23% drop, which is not insignificant.
The impression I got from her follow-on comments were that they wouldn't have approved her for DAS except that she normally visits the parks by herself, so there would be no one to wait in line and meet her if she needed to step out.
It's 13 percent when a lot of people are still under the old DAS rules. Lets see how it's looking next month. I'm sure @lentesta will continue gathering data.
Don’t most of the savviest/heaviest capacity users of the old DAS system likely still have an another few weeks?
Almost certainly
Yes, I'd bet many of the real DAS superusers / AP holders were savvy enough to wait till the last possible second to renew so as to have it for as long as possible.
This is great news. Not to give you more work, but something else that would be really interesting to track is genie+ return times for headliners: How far out they are booking and how early in the day they are selling out. As fewer DAS powerabusers tie up the lightning lanes that theoretically opens more capacity for Disney to allocate to genie+ reservations within the LL. I'd be curious to see if they start doing that.
Honestly, Disney needs to clarify AQR a bit, because the fear mongering around it is simply from a lack of information.
I’m getting the sense from other sites that RTQ is what they provide if there aren’t enough people in the party to hold a place in line. Not at all sure though.
I think they don’t want to publicize the AQR process because they don’t want people to use it as a “hack” unless they actually need it. Of course it will start to trickle out on message boards and blogs, but I think their goal is to increase friction to reduce AQR use to the people who really can’t ride without it as much as possible.
thrilldata does all this availability tracking already...
But it is publicized on their website. The one that isn't is RTQ. That verbage is never mentioned anywhere.
I glanced at thrill data’s list of when ride LLs sold out a few days after the official changeover and didn’t see a big difference or any discernible pattern. I would like to see people analyze that data for the most in demand G+ attractions — but I think it could get worse (ex-DAS users buying more G+) before it ultimately gets better (more LL inventory becomes available longer in the day and returns are faster)— the wildcard is when Disney starts adding more slots for paid LL returns.
