{"id":64740,"date":"2025-11-29T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64740\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T21:25:08","slug":"orlando-airport-warns-that-half-a-million-people-will-leave-disney-world-vacations-in-the-next-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/64740\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Airport Warns That Half a Million People Will Leave Disney World Vacations in the Next Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What goes up must come down, or in this case, what comes to Central Florida for Thanksgiving must eventually go home. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2025\/11\/disney-world-travel-is-about-to-get-worse-according-to-transportation-secretary-rl1\/\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Orlando International Airport<\/a> is expected to welcome nearly two million visitors to Central Florida during the Thanksgiving week, and now, those people must find their way back home. However, that will be a problem for thousands of them. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Untitled-design-10.jpg\" alt=\"Mickey Mouse poses in an airport terminal beside a stack of yellow suitcases, with a plane taking off and a city skyline visible through large windows at sunset as this Disney World news hits the media.\" class=\"wp-image-801762\"  \/>Credit: Inside The Magic<\/p>\n<p>Orlando International Airport has posted that it expects over 500,000 people to head to the airport over the next three days. The breakdown is: <\/p>\n<p>Saturday, November 29: 175,855 travelers<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, November 30: 177,400 travelers<\/p>\n<p>Monday, December 1: 173,383 travelers<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Thanksgiving?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">#Thanksgiving<\/a> travel period is in full swing!<br \/>Top 5 projected busiest days:<br \/>1\ufe0f\u20e3 Sunday, Nov 30 \u2013 177,400 travelers<br \/>2\ufe0f\u20e3 Saturday, Nov 29 \u2013 175,855<br \/>3\ufe0f\u20e3 Monday, Dec 1 \u2013 173,384<br \/>4\ufe0f\u20e3 Sunday, Nov 23 \u2013 169,728<br \/>5\ufe0f\u20e3 Friday, Nov 21 \u2013 163,553<br \/>Check out these tips for smooth travels.\u2708\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gPr4wkPijr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">pic.twitter.com\/gPr4wkPijr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Orlando International Airport (@MCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MCO\/status\/1994770085945221213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">November 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next three days will be the most-traveled at the airport this holiday season. While the weather in Orlando is fine, several nationwide issues could cause problems as guests attempt to return home. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday and Sunday, a significant storm is expected to drop six inches to a foot of snow across the Midwest, and by Sunday, it will bring snow and rain to the East Coast. That includes major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" alt=\"A family with luggage watches an airport departure screen, while a weather map highlights a developing situation with a red X over the Caribbean\u2014potentially affecting guests on Disney vacations.\" class=\"wp-image-795295 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764451508_759_Untitled-design-14.jpg\"  data-\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764451508_759_Untitled-design-14.jpg\" alt=\"A family with luggage watches an airport departure screen, while a weather map highlights a developing situation with a red X over the Caribbean\u2014potentially affecting guests on Disney vacations.\" class=\"wp-image-795295\"  \/>Credit: Inside The Magic<\/p>\n<p>There were more than 4,000 flight delays or cancellations on Saturday, as thousands headed home from <a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2025\/11\/visit-florida-ceo-believes-government-shutdown-could-cost-us-travel-industry-1-billion-a-week-rl1\/\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Central Florida.<\/a> Most of that was due to the weather, but there were also hundreds of delays and cancellations caused by a software issue on the Airbus A320 planes, which forced some of them to be grounded. <\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving weekend was one of the busiest recent weeks at Disney World. While Disney doesn\u2019t release exact numbers of guests who enter the parks, outsiders get a good idea of how many people are in the parks based on <a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2025\/11\/disney-worlds-individual-lightning-lane-passes-sold-out-for-thanksgiving-week-rl1\/\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Lightning Lane prices and availability. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Journey of the Little Mermaid Lightning Lane entrance\" class=\"wp-image-760226 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lightning-lane-mermaid.jpg\"  data-\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lightning-lane-mermaid.jpg\" alt=\"Journey of the Little Mermaid Lightning Lane entrance\" class=\"wp-image-760226\"  \/>Credit: Inside the Magic<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of Disney World\u2019s pricy Lightning Lane Premier Pass was sold out for two days during the Thanksgiving week, and the pass at the Magic Kingdom, which cost $429, was sold out for five days over the week. <\/p>\n<p>Those weren\u2019t the only passes that sold out. Disney\u2019s Lightning Lane Single Pass was sold out for most rides during the Thanksgiving Week. Disney\u2019s Individual Lightning Lane passes are available to skip the line at one ride per day. Those rides are: Tron Lightcycle\/Run,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidethemagic.net\/2025\/10\/disney-needs-to-be-charging-extra-for-lighting-lane-at-seven-dwarfs-mine-train-rl1\/\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_self\">Seven Dwarfs Mine Train,<\/a>\u00a0Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, and Avatar Flight of Passage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Magic Kingdom's Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride based on Snow White.\" class=\"wp-image-667418 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/N-265.jpg\"  data-\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/N-265.jpg\" alt=\"Magic Kingdom's Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride based on Snow White.\" class=\"wp-image-667418\"  \/>Credit: Inside the Magic<\/p>\n<p>Now that Thanksgiving is over, it\u2019s time for those Disney World guests to head home, and home could be covered in ice and snow. At least they got to enjoy a few days in the warm Central Florida sun. <\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the best way to pass the time when your flight is delayed? Let us know in the comments. <\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What goes up must come down, or in this case, what comes to Central Florida for Thanksgiving must&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,3847,140,38494],"class_list":["post-64740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-orlando-news","tag-traveling-to-disney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}