More than I’d like to admit!!
The air cleaning and circulation is great. The contact surfaces and being packed in shoulder to shoulder - not so great.
I think you can angle the air nozzle sort of in front of you (not blowing directly on your face/head to aid in circulating. I read about this before covid started, re: colds and flu.
I hate the air from those, but I had resigned myself to their use after first reading about their usefulness.
I actually like the air from them. Not on full blast though. Sometimes I feel a little claustrophobic on a plane and the air helps me relax a little.
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Disney is amazingly good at pricing.
Imagine a company that sell widgets. They cost $1 to make. There 1000 people willing to buy them for $2, and 2 people willing to pay $100 for it. The company makes the most money by choosing the price point that maximizes profit*customers_at_price point, not by charging as much as possible.
But if a company could charge each profitable customer as much money as they are willing to pay, the company would make even more money. That’s called differential pricing, and I really don’t know of a company that does it better then Disney.
Disney seems to find a way to capture all the money customers are willing to spend there, no matter how much that is. So many hotel room types, extra events, food options and perks - for instance, with VIP tours they can capture part of the market for exclusive days, without having to give up what they are making from day guests. While at the same time still having an entry price low enough to ensure parks were always reasonably full (in the before times), even in the least busy days.
I am very curious about what Disney will do to fill the parks to their new capacity in 2020. The hotel deals for APs and Florida residents are an example of this.
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It will be interesting to see how much each segment contributes to revenue this year. Who knows? It may be the first time the the theme parks aren’t the breadwinner, especially with Disney+ and Hulu coming in so strong during quarantine. There’s no way streaming services made enough money to cover theme park losses, and my mind just boggles at all of the moving parts in the Disney budget.
I did some very rough calculating based on some hard facts, some averages, and a few assumptions, and by my math, the Covid shutdown probably cost “Disney” in the range of 5 Billion dollars of gross income - perhaps more. Granted the expenses were much lower as well, but still we are talking about sums of money that most of us can’t even really grasp. And the way that the Disney Corporation is compartmentalized, moving money from one company to another is a lot more complex than shifting money from one checking account to another.
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