flyingguitar
TS Member
yes, our points was that they are really bad for other people and not fair.It's a capitalist business at the end of the day. Management's job is to balance the delight of their customers with the delight of shareholders - albeit to maximise returns for shareholders. It's a symbiotic relationship
Disney/Universal not only make big bucks from various FP schemes, from Ā£30 for 3+ rides to Ā£200-Ā£400 for a one-time for each ride - and then Ā£500+ for VIP/front of line experiences. They also use the benefits to sell their really expensive hotels. If you get rid of these FP options, shareholders expect the money to come from somewhere else - and that's every other customer!
disney were (not sure how it is now) a good example of this, at disney they used to opperate with up to 100:1 ratio of fast pass to non paying guests, essentially turning the rides into required paid attractions (to put that to context, a ratio of 10:1 (less, but I recall seeing 100:1 was the max) would make big thunder mountain (~3000pph) would be like 200pph, this is worse than rita at 1 train (I times about 3 min dispaches, with 20 rides, that gives about 400pph))
This was shown during covid when fastpass was closed, from start to ride snow whites queue (which during fastpass was about 2-3 hours) was 40 mins, the queue skipping features decimate the normal queue's throughput, and at disney it has destroyed the day for people who were too late to book, or didn't pay for it
