less Airplane Seats
Soaring oil price is having an impact worldwide. It can be for private use to heat your home, to get to work by car or traveling the world. The impact is felt by everybody…
Obviously airplane tickets are getting more and more expensive too and many people will not be able to afford to buy themselves a trip by plain. Airline companies are getting prepared to fly out less people then they did a year ago and are scrapping seats.
All told, data collected by the Official Airline Guide estimates that by October airlines will provide 50,244 seats per day to Orlando International Airport, a 10.2 percent decline from the 55,950 available in October 2007. That’s the 10th largest decline in the country.
How big will the impact be on Walt Disney World with such a big decrease of seats? Disney wasn’t doing bad at all as attendance did increase, even with the oil prices going up. But with the prices sky rocketing higher and higher will Theme Parks be the once paying the price? It does start to look grim.
Already planning my Walt Disney World visit for 2009 I can’t help but look at the air fares and getting a little scared too. While I do have Vacation Club Points and the advantage of the weak dollar (living in Europe), air fares like this might keep even the biggest Disney fans away for an extra year. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn that way. At Disney they don’t think it’s going to be that bad as they have positive thoughts on their economic future…
Iger told analysts: “We believe we’re much better positioned in a difficult economic cycle than we were in the past.”
