Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mhautz]

Is there a list of the areas they are checking for as time goes by that we can follow. We are not in a hot spot now but where our flight connects might be at some point.

Here's a list of travel related restrictions according to Southwest. Not exhaustive, especially internationally, but I think it's pretty informative for an idea of how travel within the United States is affected.

https://www.southwest.com/Coronavirus/?clk=CORONAVIRUS_TA&cbid=4348124
One interesting note is that a significant number of U.S. states with some sort of quarantine/travel restriction were states that were more hesitant to implement a stay at home order. Without too much commentary, these orders were mostly implemented as a last ditch effort to keep coronavirus out of the state before there was a spike.

I just feel whatever issues/restrictions there will be with travel this summer (which there will be), it won't be blanket quarantines from individual states.

 

[mshanson3121]

Yes that is most likely the case as it was Easter weekend as well. That is why the trend 3 day or more is the better way to look at it

Easter weekend has no impact on the numbers yet. What happened over Easter will show up in 10-14 days.

 

[xuxa777]

No dumping on the source at all, just clarifying, primarily for international posters who I replied to

 

[yulilin3]

@yulilin3 different work for you. I find it very interesting. When we fly to MCO it's either Philly or out of NY.
Whenever Florida starts to reopen let alone Disney I wonder how this will effect future travel.
Please stay safe and healthy we need you on these boards and for those of you not aware @yulilin is one with the force when it comes to Galaxy Edge.
Because of her knowledge and Intel this past year my family and others had wonderful experiences.

Lol im so tempted to go live right now . Thank you for your kind words, they give us the masks, gloves ans hand sanitizer so we're pretty safe and the airport is so empty anyways

 

[xuxa777]

Lol im so tempted to go live right now . Thank you for your kind words, they give us the masks, gloves ans hand sanitizer so we're pretty safe and the airport is so empty anyways

Ha, you are correct airports are really one of the safest areas now, be safe and thanks for being out there.

 

[Lewisc]

I don't know what thread to post this or how this affects WDW, so @rteetz if you need to move or delete that's fine
Today I started working for the Florida Dpt of Health through a staffing agency. I'm at the airport right now, along with nurses and national guard, my job is basically waiting for flights from the hot zones (ny,nj,la,etc) and handing them a pamphlet once they get off the airplane explaining covid symptoms and what to do if they experience them and retrieving from them personal information, address, number of people in group, ages, where they are staying that they filled out during thr flight and telling them they need to isolate for 14 days.
My shift is 6:30am to 3:30pm and the first flight coming from a hot zone is at 1:40pm and only 13 people in it
I asked my supervisor if they have an idea on how long they'll be collecting people's info and she said the government told them about 6 months to maybe a year.
They could obviously drop the quarantine requirement but the gathering of info i believe will continue.
Any questions lmk, I'm bored

Not sure how WDW can open if guests from NY area, CA and presumably soon IL are effectively banned. International visitors are also effectively banned. The Jul;y date suggested by some posters may wind up being the earliest.

POTUS wants to start opening things up in weeks. The governor of FL will follow. FL already made "exceptions" to suggested policy for spring breakers and WWE. I think DS will be opening earlier then some of us think. I'll speculate the goal date is still May 1.

 

[Jroceagles]

Here in Florida they're monitoring only NY, NJ, LA and a couple of others i forget. No international flights.

so flights coming in from Philly? a lot of NJ peeps fly out of there

 

[yulilin3]

so flights coming in from Philly? a lot of NJ peeps fly out of there

Im not sure, today is my first day and there aren't many flights anyways, but today we have a LA and NY coming in during my shift

 

[anthony2k7]

The more I hear the more I think August is going to be the earliest for any kind of park opening and even then it will be very low guest numbers.

For Springs, I think a few shops may open in june but most restaurants wont be ready until July. Somehow they have got to source food supplies first which could take weeks.

 

[Jroceagles]

Im not sure, today is my first day and there aren't many flights anyways, but today we have a LA and NY coming in during my shift

let us know if they even check the Philly flights or if every flight you have to show a license when landing

 

[Jroceagles]

The more I hear the more I think August is going to be the earliest for any kind of park opening and even then it will be very low guest numbers.

I am in the mid June/early July camp

 

[yulilin3]

let us know if they even check the Philly flights or if every flight you have to show a license when landing

On our end, you fill out a questionnaire on flight and then you hand that to us, we don't check i.d.s

 

[Karin1984]

France has extended the lock down, all public places, bars, restaurants, theaters, movie theaters etc. will remain closed till mid July. No festivals till then, so it's safe to say, no Disneyland Paris till then.

From May 11 (after the Spring break) France will start re-opening schools for children up to highschool.

Disneyland Paris has now announced the cancellation of the two big events, 6 June Disneyland Paris Pride and 3-5 July Electroland. Next emotions for these events are planned around the same time 2021.

 

[mhautz]

Im not sure, today is my first day and there aren't many flights anyways, but today we have a LA and NY coming in during my shift

I'm just curious what kind of people are coming in anyway? This might be outside the scope of what you can or are allowed to say (or the scope of this thread). It's just a thing I've been wondering in general these days.

 

[yulilin3]

I'm just curious what kind of people are coming in anyway? This might be outside the scope of what you can or are allowed to say (or the scope of this thread). It's just a thing I've been wondering in general these days.

Me too. I'll let you guys know, first flight is at 1:20, I'm assuming people for work or family of someone living here

 

[yankeesfan123]

Not sure how WDW can open if guests from NY area, CA and presumably soon IL are effectively banned. International visitors are also effectively banned. The Jul;y date suggested by some posters may wind up being the earliest.

POTUS wants to start opening things up in weeks. The governor of FL will follow. FL already made "exceptions" to suggested policy for spring breakers and WWE. I think DS will be opening earlier then some of us think. I'll speculate the goal date is still May 1.

WWE with no fans... no correlation whatsoever with a Disney park.

 

[anthony2k7]

Disneyland Paris has now announced the cancellation of the two big events, 6 June Disneyland Paris Pride and 3-5 July Electroland. Next emotions for these events are planned around the same time 2021.

Still very little news from the eastern parks. Surely they would open before anywhere else with China supposedly having very few cases for a couple of weeks now.

 

[xuxa777]

You can find all this info on the State of Florida site. This has been in place for weeks, nothing new. It is the same when driving in as well, they have "checkpoints" on the interstates at the state line, with people doing the same thing as yulilin3 is doing at the airport.

All persons traveling to Florida from New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut are required upon entry to Florida to self-isolate or quarantine for 14 days, or for the duration of their presence in the state, whichever is shorter. Click here for more information.

https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/current-travel-safety-information.html

 

[anthony2k7]

Me too. I'll let you guys know, giddy flight is at 1:20, I'm assuming people for work or family of someone living here

Possibly still flights trying to get people home from where ever they have been stuck?

 

[Miffy]

We are currently having a greater than 9/11 fatality level in the US every 48 hours. This is many orders of magnitude worse than 9/11.

I flew from NYC to London in October 2001, and in fact the flight was on 10/11/2001. I was scared of flying but somehow managed to overcome it and go. London was empty. There were almost no other American tourists there and very few tourists from anywhere.

However, there's a gigantic difference between 9/11 and covid-19, and although I hardly need to point this out, there's no comparison between a terrorist attack and a contagious disease.

Yes, people, including me, were afraid of more terrorists attacks after 9/11, but they weren't a certainty. The novel coronavirus is a certainty. It exists, it's incredibly contagious, people are dying, and there's no treatment known to be effective. And no vaccine. Yet.

People were hesitant to travel after 9/11 but there's no way of knowing if people are going to be hesitant to travel a couple of months from now. For one thing, people's idea of "facts" are widely divergent, so what seems like a risk to some might seem like nothing at all to someone else.

Disney, though, isn't going to base its decisions on concepts unsubstantiated by science and empirical evidence. If they do, they're going to be exposing themselves to way worse problems than merely losing income. Because if they open too soon--whenever that will turn out to be, and I have no crystal ball--and there are clusters of infections that can be traced back to the parks, trust in the Disney organization will plummet. Trust is an essential part of their brand. I doubt they want to destroy that.