Posted 21 March 2010 - 05:36 PM
450 people per hour, that means a total maximum of 450*7=3150 people can use the gondola every ski day. (assuming a 9-4 ski day)
So if they do a two ticket levels that means that at max (if you rode the gondi once) you shouldn't have anymore than 3150 people buying that ticket (otherwise people aren't getting for it). Now I don't know what the maximum amount of people Crystal can handle but I have a hunch it's over 3150 which means I wonder if Boyne would sell more than 3150 gondola tickets a day (knowing what they charge, I bet they would), which seems a bit disingenuous. A any rate I would think it might make more money for Boyne to just raise the prices on all the tickets, but that implies that everyone would use the gondola, which with the low capacity I don't see that ever happening. This is probably why they are thinking of doing the whole added cost thing instead of just raising ticket prices on every ticket, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did, cause while I haven't seen their financial, skier visits, etc,results I'd think it'd be in Boyne's best interest to raise prices on everyone. (then again I'd certainly prefer if they didn't do that)