The problem with Universal is it's not as big a multi-generational park. In 2018 my father was interested in a day there. We looked at everything and concluded that for an 89 year old it just wasn't worth it. I know you probably don't care about the elderly, but lots of us do.
I recall phase 1 capacity coming up relatively often.
Because the pretax price satisfied the expected margin.
I'm not sure that there is even a mention of someone that is 89 years old as a target audience. I'm almost 73 and I know that no one cares about designing something for my benefit. I went there for two days in the parks (even stayed at a brand new Uni Resort) in Sept. 2019. I found plenty to do over two days. The people that are older probably never did care all that much for the vomit inducing attractions, I know it never did, but any age, in good health, can experience a lot of things. Because of Disney ridiculous requirements of attending the place on dates determined weeks if not months before, regardless of health or weather, Uni has become a real competitor. They offer many varieties of attractions and are, in most areas, far more creative and entertaining then Disney as of late. It is a younger park setup, but it doesn't preclude older people any more then Disney does now.
Even with my minimal knowledge of Universal, I can't imagine what you would do for a week there.
Lots. I stayed a week and found lots to do to fill my week. Then again many don't do parks like I do. When I go to any amusement park I always the skip the line pass so I can re-ride attractions multiple times. I rode the Mummy 10 times in 2 days.
No luggage allowed on Disney buses.
I have to agree with that. There are times though when smaller is better. I haven't seen the new park so I can't speak for what is in there.
$100.00 per person? A rental is or will be a lot cheaper then that before to long. Maybe $20 per person for package 1. Mass transit, by design has to be cheaper than alternate methods. I don't know what arrangement they have with Mears at the moment but if Mears were to take over the process, they would be the ones absorbing the cost of empty bus travel from MCO to WDW. Disney, probably within a block monthly charge cover that expense now.
To be honest if Mears takes the whole project on. They'll probably change the routine. Like no empty buses, only leaving the airport when they hit a certain percentage. Multiple resort stops per bus.
This would be excellent. I would love to see this, LOL
Nothing stopping them from having their own assigned buses for Universal. They don't require as many buses and it is closer to MCO is closer to Universal then to Disney. The best they could do is offer Disney a deal to pay to wrap the Disney buses for a whole lot less money then actually operating the service. But, Mears will already have a bunch of buses with the Disney look.
It's not really all that simple. They can, and maybe do, designate pick up times from WDW to MCO, but Disney cannot control air traffic delays, on times, weather and staff scheduling. That leaves people coming in to MCO at random non-controllable times. You can't have people waiting for three hours hoping some other people will be coming in view shortly. Not sure how it works now, if someone knows, please let me know because I am curious. It will still have a steady reliable departure from MCO to work. Just throwing out numbers having a bus leave every hour immediately replace by another that will leave in 60 minutes. It isn't as crucial coming from WDW to MCO but some consistency has to be there to get it dependable and not ulcer inducing for Guests. Seems like I remember reading someplace that going from WDW to MCO has about a three hour window with most of that wait ending up at the airport.
As if taking 90 minutes to get from plane to WDW wasn't bad enough with DME.