Avatar Flight of Passage Reliability & Wait Patterns

Animal Kingdom · Pandora - The World of Avatar · Based on 22123 wait-time samples

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

0.29
Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)
Stable — waits stay close to the day's average.
50m
Typical (p50) wait
85m
Busy (p90) wait
125m
Worst-case (p99)
180m
Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

49m
Weekday average
61m
Weekend average
1.25×
Weekend multiplier

Lightning Lane sell-out pattern

Avatar Flight of Passage sold out on 52 of 117 days it was on sale at our same-day checks (44%), typically by 11:15 AM ET. Times are when our checks first saw it gone, so the real sell-out can be a little earlier; tracked since April 2026.

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

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

9
Recorded breakdowns
26m
Typical (median) outage
52m
Longest outage (2026-10-11)
0.7
Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

DateDown for
2026-10-1152m
2026-09-2918m
2026-09-2026m
2026-09-2019m
2026-08-3139m
2026-08-0248m
2026-07-2926m
2026-07-2114m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 7 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.

7
0%
8
0%
9
1%
10
1%
11
2%
12
2%
13
0%
14
1%
15
1%
16
1%
17
0%
18
0%
19
0%
20
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

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

DOW8910111213141516171819202122
Mon 73 65 69 75 70 62 53 49 52 42 39 – – – –
Tue 56 52 62 56 49 48 44 40 40 33 39 – – – –
Wed 46 40 45 53 43 41 38 37 30 26 25 10 – – –
Thu 40 43 59 55 48 47 47 38 33 31 28 – – – –
Fri 61 58 66 65 68 61 57 53 49 50 52 – – – –
Sat 76 66 74 77 74 68 63 58 53 54 46 47 – – –
Sun 73 73 74 75 66 62 59 57 49 48 40 – – – –

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
Cloudy · 585 ride-hours · within noise
-2m
Light Rain · 21 ride-hours · within noise
-3m
Heavy Rain · 47 ride-hours · within noise
+0m
Clear · 170 ride-hours · within noise

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