News Round Up 2020

[RaySharpton]

Wow. This is weird news.

That would be great for me to use flying in my wheelchair without a car.

I'd stay at the Swan & Dolphin more often.

 

[MissGina5]

Local news but may be of interest: Southwest Airlines is coming to O'Hare. This is great for finding more flight options!

 

[Tigger's ally]

Local news but may be of interest: Southwest Airlines is coming to O'Hare. This is great for finding more flight options!

Crap, might mean no nonstop from Indy and The Lou where we fly out. More options though i guess.

 

[Tigger's ally]

That would be great for me to use flying in my wheelchair without a car.

I'd stay at the Swan & Dolphin more often.

How would you get there though? No ME.

 

[rteetz]

How would you get there though? No ME.

Mears runs shuttles to Swolphin.

 

[Tigger's ally]

Mears runs shuttles to Swolphin.

Fir a fee?

 

[rteetz]

Fir a fee?

Yes

 

[Tigger's ally]

Yes

Dint know that.

 

[OSUZorba]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2020/10/tomo...-extended-through-christmas-at-magic-kingdom/

Do we know for sure they are actually working on it?

 

[rteetz]

Do we know for sure they are actually working on it?

Yes

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1316565462679982081

 

[OSUZorba]

Local news but may be of interest: Southwest Airlines is coming to O'Hare. This is great for finding more flight options!

Crap, might mean no nonstop from Indy and The Lou where we fly out. More options though i guess.

Yes, the CEO of Southwest Gary Kelly said that they are going to add more routes to airports that they've traditional avoided. Basically, they are trying to prevent layoffs, and they have a ton of aircraft and employees sitting around parked. They feel they are capturing as many passengers as they can right now on their current routes (which have been pulled way back), so they are hoping if they very cheaply add more cities/airports they will be able to capture some new passengers. The desire is to make a little more than the variable cost of the flights (fuel, maintenance, servicing), helping with their cash burn problem.

I get the feeling that most of these will be temporary additions. Other cities of note are Miami, Palm Springs and some of the ski cities. They also appear to be adding some more none stop flight options.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...aggressively-add-new-cities-amid-travel-slump
Thinking like this, though, is why Southwest is the only airline with truly long term success.

 

[Gusey]

https://www.wdwinfo.com/walt-disney-world/new-announcement-playing-in-the-disney-parks/

 

[sherlockmiles]

Local news but may be of interest: Southwest Airlines is coming to O'Hare. This is great for finding more flight options!

YEAH! Hope that means a reasonable way to get to MI from CT!

 

[mum22girlz]

Local news but may be of interest: Southwest Airlines is coming to O'Hare. This is great for finding more flight options!

Interesting . . . and still keeping Midway? We fly from Grand Rapids and usually have a layover at Midway. Sometimes they have direct from GR, but not always.

 

[Firebird060]

News

Mears now operating park buses at Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin

https://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/wa...rs-shuttles-for-theme-park-transportation.htm

Well at least you can park for free at the Disney Parks if you brought a car and staying at the swan and dolphin, I have always prefered Disney Transportation over any of the mears buses. Also I wonder how that effects guests who use scooters as it isnt the same load and unload process

 

[TheMaxRebo]

FYI to anyone interested

Looks like bookings are open for rest of 2021 including Park Reservations

I was just able to book Magic Kingdom for my family for Oct 1st 2021 for the 50th


https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-storie...1-BTl5Ji48uL7yC_qEcvNMKmvIHJ1esHjdF7O5iz2PULE

 

[New Mouse]

FYI to anyone interested

Looks like bookings are open for rest of 2021 including Park Reservations

I was just able to book Magic Kingdom for my family for Oct 1st 2021 for the 50th


https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-storie...1-BTl5Ji48uL7yC_qEcvNMKmvIHJ1esHjdF7O5iz2PULE

So... theres no way to book if you have an ap that will be expiring before the date in 2021... but theres no way to extend your pass because disney extended past what my original renewal date would be...

Im not surprised by this at all to be honest.

 

[jpeterson]

FYI to anyone interested

Looks like bookings are open for rest of 2021 including Park Reservations

I was just able to book Magic Kingdom for my family for Oct 1st 2021 for the 50th


https://www.wdwinfo.com/news-storie...1-BTl5Ji48uL7yC_qEcvNMKmvIHJ1esHjdF7O5iz2PULE

I'm not seeing anything Not sure what is happening

 

[TheMaxRebo]

So... theres no way to book if you have an ap that will be expiring before the date in 2021... but theres no way to extend your pass because disney extended past what my original renewal date would be...

Im not surprised by this at all to be honest.

you could get a daily ticket and then use it towards your AP renewal/upgrade

But yeah, another "not great scenario" for AP holders