How often does Jet Packs break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 29 real breakdown episodes for Jet Packs — about 2.3 per week, spread across 19 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Jet Packs usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Jet Packs lasted 65 minutes (average 77 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 264 minutes, on 2026-08-09.

Jet Packs Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 26178 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.44

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

30m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

60m

Worst-case (p99)

90m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

32m

Weekday average

29m

Weekend average

0.92×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Jet Packs flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

65m

Typical (median) outage

4h 24m

Longest outage (2026-08-09)

2.3

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-13	19m
2026-10-09	1h 41m
2026-10-03	12m
2026-10-03	25m
2026-09-06	31m
2026-09-02	38m
2026-09-02	22m
2026-08-30	55m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 19 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

0
0%

1
0%

3
0%

5
0%

7
4%

8
1%

9
1%

10
1%

11
2%

12
2%

13
2%

14
3%

15
3%

16
3%

17
3%

18
4%

19
4%

20
5%

21
3%

22
7%

23
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	25	29	32	27	31	34	32	41	41	41	39	32	20	–
Tue	8	33	39	38	33	38	42	39	46	45	47	41	35	20	–
Wed	6	26	31	32	28	30	31	31	41	38	40	37	29	17	–
Thu	6	26	32	30	29	32	36	34	45	42	42	40	31	20	–
Fri	8	28	34	34	28	30	34	33	45	43	46	44	35	23	28
Sat	6	23	30	24	26	27	33	28	36	39	39	37	26	17	–
Sun	6	27	34	36	28	31	39	37	43	42	38	38	30	17	–

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

-0m

Clear · 287 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Cloudy · 652 ride-hours · within noise

-2m

Light Rain · 57 ride-hours · within noise

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Jet Packs rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

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+10m (29%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	25	29	32	27	31	34	32	41	41	41	39	32	20	–
Tue	8	33	39	38	33	38	42	39	46	45	47	41	35	20	–
Wed	6	26	31	32	28	30	31	31	41	38	40	37	29	17	–
Thu	6	26	32	30	29	32	36	34	45	42	42	40	31	20	–
Fri	8	28	34	34	28	30	34	33	45	43	46	44	35	23	28
Sat	6	23	30	24	26	27	33	28	36	39	39	37	26	17	–
Sun	6	27	34	36	28	31	39	37	43	42	38	38	30	17	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	25	29	32	27	31	34	32	41	41	41	39	32	20	–
Tue	8	33	39	38	33	38	42	39	46	45	47	41	35	20	–
Wed	6	26	31	32	28	30	31	31	41	38	40	37	29	17	–
Thu	6	26	32	30	29	32	36	34	45	42	42	40	31	20	–
Fri	8	28	34	34	28	30	34	33	45	43	46	44	35	23	28
Sat	6	23	30	24	26	27	33	28	36	39	39	37	26	17	–
Sun	6	27	34	36	28	31	39	37	43	42	38	38	30	17	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	25	29	32	27	31	34	32	41	41	41	39	32	20	–
Tue	8	33	39	38	33	38	42	39	46	45	47	41	35	20	–
Wed	6	26	31	32	28	30	31	31	41	38	40	37	29	17	–
Thu	6	26	32	30	29	32	36	34	45	42	42	40	31	20	–
Fri	8	28	34	34	28	30	34	33	45	43	46	44	35	23	28
Sat	6	23	30	24	26	27	33	28	36	39	39	37	26	17	–
Sun	6	27	34	36	28	31	39	37	43	42	38	38	30	17	–