News Round Up 2019

[The Pho]

Can you even buy a preloaded visa anywhere that accepts Disney gift cards as payment? Not to mention that as far as I know you usually can't use any store's gift cards to buy other gift cards, including the visa one.

There are a lot of places that accept random store gift cards for payment. Especially online stores.

 

[splash327]

Anything here reporting the unfortunate incident at MCO today? I don’t know much but sounds like some flight delays this afternoon. We fly back at 6:55 tonight.

My wife should have been at MCO this morning but we canceled her ticket last night when my son's (new cp) car broke down in Fayetteville, NC. Instead we drove the van down here and picked up the rental at MCO at 11:30. Just unbelievable.

 

[BLLB]

More on the incident at Orlando International

https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-storie...al-airport-after-suicide-inside-the-terminal/

I cannot fathom the trauma of those who witnessed. What a tragedy.

 

[AurumPunzel]

A TSA agent committed suicide at the airport.

Terribly sad.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disneyland closing early due to rain

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/disneyland-park-closing-early-february-2nd-due-to-rain/

 

[rteetz]

News

New Animal Kingdom merchandise

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/photos-ne...dom-passport-collection-merchandise-released/

 

[dina444444]

News

Disneyland closing early due to rain

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/disneyland-park-closing-early-february-2nd-due-to-rain/

Well the rain has stopped and the sun is now out where I am but it was heavy rain for about 7-8 hours straight before that.

 

[OSUZorba]

Anything here reporting the unfortunate incident at MCO today? I don’t know much but sounds like some flight delays this afternoon. We fly back at 6:55 tonight.

I was supposed to leave at 6:55 too. Got an email that my flight has been cancelled and they let me rebook an earlier flight. We ran to the car from MK then half way to the airport it was cancelled too. So we started driving to Tampa. Luckily we got out.

It appears Southwest cancelled over 100 fights, while Delta just took long delays for a few hours. Talked to a pilot on our flight out of TPA and he confirmed that Southwest just pulled MCO from the routings to prevent rub off delays across the system. This is what they thought they needed to do for the system, however they coded the cancels as weather or otherwise out of their control, meaning you were completely on your own, no compensation no hotels, etc. I personally think this is an abuse of the no-fault coding and I'm sure it'll be challenged.

In other news, don't travel to MCO with me. This is my third trip in a row to MCO to have a flight cancelled, over 18 months.

Edit: BTW, I'm very sorry for his family and anyone that saw it. I talked to a family that saw it, and it sounded pretty bad. Since the guy obviously planned/wanted to cause disruption, I'm very glad he didn't try to take anyone else with him. I'll take flight issues any day in exchange for him not hurting anyone else.

 

[rteetz]

News

More Disney snack merchandise

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/disney-parks-food-play-set-and-towels-debut-at-world-of-disney/

 

[wareagle57]

News

Disneyland closing early due to rain

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/disneyland-park-closing-early-february-2nd-due-to-rain/

This seems odd. I got a notification this morning when I logged in to check. Lines have been very low. I’ve never heard of reducing hours unless there was a weather threat. Was this just due to the predicted low crowds?

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

Made it home just 40 min later than scheduled. We are super blessed! Will hug the family tight tonight - very sorry for what happened today at MCO.

 

[rteetz]

Made it home just 40 min later than scheduled. We are super blessed! Will hug the family tight tonight - very sorry for what happened today.

That’s good I saw some flights were even cancelled.

 

[Dentam]

This is what they thought they needed to do for the system, however they coded the cancels as weather or otherwise out of their control, meaning you were completely on your own, no compensation no hotels, etc. I personally think this is an abuse of the no-fault coding and I'm sure it'll be challenged.

Well, it definitely wasn't in their control so...

Really horrible and I feel so badly for everyone involved - both the family of the victim and the witnesses.

 

[OSUZorba]

Well, it definitely wasn't in their control so...

Cancelling flights 10 hours after the incident (actually some that are 21 hours after have been cancelled because their inbounds were cancelled) out of a fear of ruboff delays was a business/operational decision, completely within their control. Using the weather coding is supposed to be for flights that physically can't be flown, not a "well this will cause downstream delays if we decide to fly it." The airport was back to normal operations hours before the scheduled departure of at least half of the cancelled flights.

I am sure there will be a lot of complaints from people that were told they could get on a flight on Tuesday or Wednesday and told they could go buy a ticket from a different airline that was actually operating out of MCO today (i.e. every airline except Southwest).

FYI, I worked in airline flight ops engineering for years, so I have a pretty good understanding of what goes into these decisions. Flights were cancelled out of a fear of impact on the rest of the system, not because they couldn't physically happen.

Edit: I'm not trying to dump on Southwest, they're my favorite airline by far, I just feel they had a knee jerk reaction here and are leaving their customers holding the bag.

 

[rteetz]

News

Exclusive Golden Oak Magicband

https://twitter.com/dismagicbands/status/1091858266290823169?s=21

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

News

Exclusive Golden Oak Magicband

https://twitter.com/dismagicbands/status/1091858266290823169?s=21

I’m obviously not in the market for this one, but I really like the side — pretty. The giant lettering, not so much... takes down the classiness level IMO. Not that it matters...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I’m obviously not in the market for this one, but I really like the side — pretty. The giant lettering, not so much... takes down the classiness level IMO. Not that it matters...

Pretty sure if I lived there I would want everyone to know it - so the bigger the letters the better!

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Pretty sure if I lived there I would want everyone to know it - so the bigger the letters the better!

I’m the opposite, but I take your point... I’m sure it appeals to some...!

 

[skier_pete]

Cancelling flights 10 hours after the incident (actually some that are 21 hours after have been cancelled because their inbounds were cancelled) out of a fear of ruboff delays was a business/operational decision, completely within their control. Using the weather coding is supposed to be for flights that physically can't be flown, not a "well this will cause downstream delays if we decide to fly it." The airport was back to normal operations hours before the scheduled departure of at least half of the cancelled flights.

I am sure there will be a lot of complaints from people that were told they could get on a flight on Tuesday or Wednesday and told they could go buy a ticket from a different airline that was actually operating out of MCO today (i.e. every airline except Southwest).

FYI, I worked in airline flight ops engineering for years, so I have a pretty good understanding of what goes into these decisions. Flights were cancelled out of a fear of impact on the rest of the system, not because they couldn't physically happen.

Edit: I'm not trying to dump on Southwest, they're my favorite airline by far, I just feel they had a knee jerk reaction here and are leaving their customers holding the bag.

I gotta imagine that Southwest will do something for passengers affected. We flew out of MCO in October and were delayed 2 hours so we didn't get home until 2 AM. We didn't complain, but we DID go early and try to get out on a different flight the next day - but were unable to do so. We didn't actually even act upset or anything - just told them we didn't want to get in at 2 AM, and would prefer to delay to the next day. When we got home - SWA had given us each a $100 voucher for future flights. I would imagine they will offer something to those affected in this case.

News

Exclusive Golden Oak Magicband

https://twitter.com/dismagicbands/status/1091858266290823169?s=21

The "i'm better than all y'all" band.

And I admit it, if I could afford to live in Golden Oak - I would totally wear an "I'm better than all y'all" band.

 

[rteetz]

News

New Dumbo live action merchandise

https://wdwnt.com/2019/02/shop-live-action-dumbo-merchandise-flies-into-shopdisney/