RollerBee wrote:It would still be increase. Either over the numbers of rides available last year or the number of cycles possible on the FLP than last year. The only ways supply could go down is if they took a ride off, limited the number of passes sold or otherwise slowed the number of cycles possible.
So yes I understand Supply & Demand, try again Eddie.
OH. MYGAWD.
I don't know of anyway to say any of this without coming across as rude and condescending, so here goes:
A) Did you graduate high school? I ask that seriously.
B) You're, what, a school bus driver? And before that you worked at Carowinds? Until I went back to work for the government, I spent several years as a marketing executive where my career literally revolved around Supply & Demand. I'm confident I know more about it than you, and by your arguments, you don't know what you're talking about.
You're trying to argue that the park has more capacity in a conversation about Fastlane. You're not bringing a knife to a gun fight, you're bringing a gun, you just don't understand what it is or how to pull the trigger.
I dumbed down my explanation of how this is supply and demand, and I'll go further, but if you don't understand it, I can't help you. At this point I don't know if you really don't understand, or are, as Jarvis has said, just being antagonistic for the sake of being antagonistic.
Yes. Park capacity is increasing. In several ways. They're adding 2 new rides and completely redesigning the front gate to get people in faster. So that increases the park's capacity.
But we're talking about Fastlane. Unlike Qbot or Fastpasses (Systems of virtual queuing/queue management), Fastlane is a premium line cutting product. Maybe you don't know this, but Cedar Fair limits the amount of Fastlanes available on any given day. They also limit even more the Fastlane Plus, which is a higher tier product.
So the company artificially limits the supply of Fastlanes, based on popularity of rides, wait times of rides, and attendance projections. Fastlane has a set supply. Rides can only given a set amount of rides.
Still with me?
Now, Fastlane prices fluctuate based on attendance projections. The busier the park is expected to be, the higher the price. When demand for the set amount of Fastlanes available is likely to be higher, it costs more, because it will be in more demand, due to longer lines, which come from higher attendance.
Now, do you understand that? All of this is from actual press releases and conference calls that have come from the company, so argue with it all you want, this is what the company believes, based on their research.
Okay, at each park, rides with the expected longest lines (Due to popularity, or in the case of Nightwing, loading & unloading times) are put on Fastlane Plus, a higher tier, and more expensive. So, because these particular rides are in higher demand, they cost more to get your supply (ride) than, say, waiting in line (which is included with basic admission), or not riding at all.
The conversation was about Fastlane Plus, which I pointed out was a direct result of supply and demand.
Your overall capacity comment has nothing to do with the conversation. Yes, park capacity goes up. But the individual rides can only give a finite amount of rides. Therefore, Fastlane, which is a premium service, covers most rides in the park, and lets you skip the line, wait in a much shorter line, and ride faster.
But because certain rides are in higher demand, and likely to have longer lines, the park charges you even more to add these to your Fastlane because they're in demand, and people are willing to pay even more just to not wait in line.
So, you're really going to try and argue with that? Everything I've said here is based on the basic concept of supply & demand, a proven economic model, and information from the company, which has the research to back it up.
But, go ahead. I'd love to hear your argument as to why the company and economics are wrong.
