How often does Peter Pan’s Flight break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 18 real breakdown episodes for Peter Pan’s Flight — about 1.4 per week, spread across 17 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Peter Pan’s Flight usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Peter Pan’s Flight lasted 30 minutes (average 38 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 195 minutes, on 2026-08-20.

Peter Pan’s Flight Reliability & Wait Patterns

Shanghai Disneyland · Based on 26871 wait-time samples

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

0.51

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Highly volatile — wait times swing a lot over the course of a day.

30m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

70m

Worst-case (p99)

90m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

30m

Weekday average

29m

Weekend average

0.99×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Peter Pan’s Flight flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

30m

Typical (median) outage

3h 15m

Longest outage (2026-08-20)

1.4

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-10	23m
2026-10-09	6m
2026-10-02	36m
2026-09-28	45m
2026-09-14	53m
2026-09-12	7m
2026-09-03	6m
2026-08-30	7m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 17 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.

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0%

1
0%

3
0%

5
0%

7
1%

8
2%

9
1%

10
2%

11
1%

12
0%

13
1%

14
1%

15
0%

16
1%

17
1%

18
0%

19
0%

20
0%

21
1%

22
0%

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	22	31	37	33	36	39	35	35	34	32	27	20	8	–
Tue	6	29	40	44	37	44	46	38	40	39	34	31	20	8	–
Wed	5	20	34	36	37	36	40	33	34	33	29	26	16	7	–
Thu	5	20	31	35	34	36	42	34	33	34	32	25	16	7	–
Fri	5	25	40	40	40	38	44	39	37	36	33	31	21	11	–
Sat	5	22	38	36	36	34	42	37	33	35	32	29	19	10	–
Sun	5	23	42	40	40	36	43	39	39	33	28	23	16	6	–

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 · 292 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Cloudy · 662 ride-hours · within noise

-6m

Light Rain · 57 ride-hours · clear signal

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Peter Pan’s Flight is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Rex’s Racer

+9m (15%)

What causes this ride to spike

Waits for Peter Pan’s Flight rise when these rides are DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Pirates of the Caribbean Battle for the Sunken Treasure

+4m (15%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	22	31	37	33	36	39	35	35	34	32	27	20	8	–
Tue	6	29	40	44	37	44	46	38	40	39	34	31	20	8	–
Wed	5	20	34	36	37	36	40	33	34	33	29	26	16	7	–
Thu	5	20	31	35	34	36	42	34	33	34	32	25	16	7	–
Fri	5	25	40	40	40	38	44	39	37	36	33	31	21	11	–
Sat	5	22	38	36	36	34	42	37	33	35	32	29	19	10	–
Sun	5	23	42	40	40	36	43	39	39	33	28	23	16	6	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	22	31	37	33	36	39	35	35	34	32	27	20	8	–
Tue	6	29	40	44	37	44	46	38	40	39	34	31	20	8	–
Wed	5	20	34	36	37	36	40	33	34	33	29	26	16	7	–
Thu	5	20	31	35	34	36	42	34	33	34	32	25	16	7	–
Fri	5	25	40	40	40	38	44	39	37	36	33	31	21	11	–
Sat	5	22	38	36	36	34	42	37	33	35	32	29	19	10	–
Sun	5	23	42	40	40	36	43	39	39	33	28	23	16	6	–

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	6	22	31	37	33	36	39	35	35	34	32	27	20	8	–
Tue	6	29	40	44	37	44	46	38	40	39	34	31	20	8	–
Wed	5	20	34	36	37	36	40	33	34	33	29	26	16	7	–
Thu	5	20	31	35	34	36	42	34	33	34	32	25	16	7	–
Fri	5	25	40	40	40	38	44	39	37	36	33	31	21	11	–
Sat	5	22	38	36	36	34	42	37	33	35	32	29	19	10	–
Sun	5	23	42	40	40	36	43	39	39	33	28	23	16	6	–