Six Flags CLOSURES This Summer - When & Where You Have to Watch Out

Six Flags' operating schedule has been cut back at some of their parks. If you're travelling around this summer, please be aware that some parks are NOT open every day and plan around it.
0:00:51 Over Texas
0:01:07 Frontier City
0:01:24 Darien Lake
0:01:42 Great Escape
0:02:02 Mexico
0:02:23 Over Georgia
0:02:35 New Engand
0:02:48 America
0:03:05 Magic Mountain
0:03:19 Fiesta Texas
0:03:30 Great America
0:03:36 Great Adventure
0:03:45 St Louis
0:03:51 Discovery Kingdom
0:03:57 La Ronde
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[@simonandlola7713]

OMG! The Griswolds are going to be upset!

[@FryGuy909]

Yeah but this time the moose got some help from airtime hills

We know what happens, they gun the John Candy security guy.

[@StamfordBridge]

Ha! I’ve pulled a Griswold more than once in the U.S., and it was precisely for this reason: booked in advance according to the website schedule, then actually pulled up to the park to discover they changed their calendar. I’m looking at you, Worlds of Fun and Galveston Pleasure Pier! 😡

[@christianortiz793]

Sorry Folks

@@christianortiz793 parks closed

[@collinparsons3363]

Schools in the south start and end earlier than those in the north, so it was common for parks in the south to scale back operations in August. On the flip side, they used to start daily operations earlier. Oddly, Great Escape's education days are not open to the public, but SFNE's are. Even if the park is open to the public, those are days to avoid, because the parks are mobbed with school groups.

[@AirtimeThrills]

Thanks for the info, it wasn't super clear about the availability of those education days. The hours are very short and the FAQ said no passes

[@Starlit43]

So great adventure is the only park open every day? That’s why they’re the GOAT

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Them and SFFT are the only ones that care to improve their park!

[@AirtimeThrills]

I dont know whats up with their missing September schedule but yeah until then they're crushing it

[@alex33952]

@@AirtimeThrills 50th anniversary might have something to do with it. Plus being in a mega market

[@patrickwagner6247]

Meanwhile people complain on their fan pages every day about a ton of rides being closed. So open, but rides closed. Sooo...

[@Starlit43]

@@patrickwagner6247 most things are open now

[@frenchy1224]

For the Education Days at Great Escape: They are open to the public those days and you can use your season pass to enter the park. You just can't use a pass to enter the park if you're coming with your school. You must purchase a daily ticket with your school's name on it for entry and use of the dining package (if purchased).

[@AirtimeThrills]

Gotcha. I figured that may be the case but the FAQ was a bit misleading

[@frenchy1224]

@AirtimeThrills Yeah, I think the GP are also confused. I work in rides and we were dead both education days. So hopefully it'll pick up or else who knows if they'll be here next season.

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

I mean yeah this sucks. As enthusiasts… we specifically plan to go on those Tuesday and Wednesdays then pray the parks will be dead. But on the bright side this strategy will result in less ride closures due to staffing on the days they are open.

[@AirtimeThrills]

That's my hope as well. Better ops on the days they're open

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I agree, man. They’ll have to turn to other theme parks for their roller coaster doses.

[@StamfordBridge]

Thank you for the warning! I have a big U.S. road trip planned and fully booked, so I watched this with a bit of terror. Fortunately, my itinerary made it unscathed for now. I find SFoG to be the biggest shocker. Almost half the peak summer season blocked out!

[@ninjagirl226]

I wonder if this also applies to the water parks cause Georgia in August = miserable heat

[@StamfordBridge]

@@ninjagirl226True!

[@OklahomaCoasterFan]

Georgia's simply just lines up with their school schedule. They go back to school very early. It's been the beginning of August for awhile. Now, they're backing it into July. Georgia heat isn't a factor. Texas & Oklahoma get tremendously hotter than Georgia.

[@TheCoasterSerpent]

Seriously, screw this merger. They should just file for Chapter 11 and restructure rather than create a mega company where the competition isn't relevant and there are so many parks, none will ever be able to get anything relevant. These hours are dreadful. If I take a roadtrip this year, I should focus on smaller parks like Knoebels, Kennywood, Kentucky Kingdom, Holiday World, and Indiana Beach.

I don't think you know how capitalism works.

[@JCBro-yg8vd]

I agree. Cedar Fair and Six Flags' operating styles are incompatible. This reminds me a lot of the failed PennCentral merger, merging two bitter rivals together for the sake of consolidation. All it really does is drag down the rest of the industry, because they can't compete even with the bloated mega company.

[@jordydejong3376]

as much of a bummer this news is , this merger is saving 2 dying theme park businesses riddled with debt, cutting costs on operations and opening days is the only way to do so , incase you didn't notice already, both six flags and cedar fair are bleeding money , big investments into new rides have basically stalled in the last 10 years. Both chains have been suffering since the 2008 financial crises and are suffering now from the huge cost of living crises , whit out this merger both chains would have been forced to sell off under preforming parks. merging and cutting cost will have some not so great consequences in the near future , and that sucks. But for the long term its absolutely necessary to do what they are doing now . its the only way to make sure the parks keep exsicting and keep getting better

@@jordydejong3376 Exactly. The economy isn't the same as it was during the Six Flags/Cedar Fair "buy coasters in bulk" days of the early 2000s.

[@jordydejong3376]

yeah getting tired of coaster enthusiasts not understanding how money works haha six flags and cedar fair parks with 12 to 15 coasters , that get on average 2 mil visitors a year and are drowning in maintenance and operating costs, its whats killing those parks , and then come the coaster enthusiasts suggesting those parks invest 35 mil in a B&M hyper to save the park , love to see it haha

[@jzckvsn]

Happy to see discovery kingdom operating weekly until August. Should get a lot of people at our park over the summer

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

Not Happy about The Flash being closed along with like half of the rides.

[@rct2nerd]

I was at Six Flags Great Adventure today, and they didn't open Frontier Adventures until 2 PM. This is likely because of the lack of staffing, and I wonder if this trend will continue.

[@eastonchristensen3601]

I just went to discovery kingdom and had one of the worst experiences at a park, only 5 roller coasters were open, the operations where absolutely horrible, and the park was absolutely packed, I was very disappointed overall. I just went to Californias great America and even though the rides aren’t as good, the park was overall a much better experience, I’m pretty disappointed with six flags!

[@AirtimeThrills]

You like many have had a bad time at SFDK this year

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

@@AirtimeThrills I'm gonna continue to support CA's Great America for the forseeable future, and haven't heard any news since the announcement that they're ceasing operations in 2033. Discovery Kingdom sure looks like the park that's going to close eventually more than Great America with like half the major coaster's and other rides closed well into the summer.

[@michael7054]

Nice video! Thanks for helping out everyone with this info!

[@psychichorse]

Thanks for shouting this out, I hope Great Adventure doesn't change anything before my trip in August. I'll have to rearrange my trip in the area otherwise.

[@SpasticTheMonkey]

You should be good, staffing isn’t an issue (I work there) and with The Flash opening soon, no way they don’t open every day unless bad weather obviously

[@carminecdinoproductions]

I agree

[@troublenyc4092]

Yay ! My home park isn’t affected at all!!! Go GREAT ADVENTURE!😎🩷

[@carminecdinoproductions]

HECK YEAH! They’re going big for the park’s 50th season 50th anniversary this year!

[@troublenyc4092]

@@carminecdinoproductions I can’t believe I’ve been enjoying Great Adventure since 8 years after it opened! From the kiddie coasters/flat rides to Lightning Loops and Rolling Thunder to the Great American Scream Machine and Nitro to Kingda Ka and El Toro! So many great times there with friends and family, and between the GASM here and DRACHENFIRE at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, the humble beginnings of my cervical spinal issues🥺 Just happy that coasters have become soooo much smoother since the GASM days! I can ride most coasters without pain after, which says a lot about the engineering improvements with companies like Intamin, RMC, Mack, GCI, etc…. I walk to the Cyclone whenever I get the free time to do so, but gotta get to Six Flags asap, preferably before school is out.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

@@troublenyc4092 Yeah. I agree with you.

[@billcolley1929]

Glad I saw this ! I had planned my trip for next week , and originally had SF NE , Daren Lake , Great escape. cut those three already but good to know in case I thought about it when on the road.

[@CoasterParadise12323]

WOW! An Airtime Thrills video on a Tuesday!!! Keep up the great work!

[@CoasterVet]

This is good information, thanks for this.

[@Cheezbat]

This is such sense of being what they do… Really makes difficult to plan a road trip and hit parts every day when they’re going to do these random off days every week

[@spentron1]

I had 2 bad days at parks, incl. Hershey. Friday school groups + short staffed is not a good combination, stick to weekends off season. I really wouldn't mind SFA taking some more days off if it meant predictable ops.

[@athenaclark2567]

This is great to know since I plan to hit Six Flags New England on a weekday at some point this summer

[@joeyquinn212]

Thanks for this video. Fortunately, these closures will most likely not affect my first to visit to Six Flags Great America next month.

[@sf-dn8rh]

Good info for all the park chains :)

[@CoasterChamp]

Please do a Cedar Fair one

[@CoasterParadise12323]

They have pretty standard schedules, ending daily operations on the 3rd week of August generally. They only have staggered openings, and I have seen that Kings Island and Cedar Point start daily operations earlier. Knott's is open everyday tho

[@ScottyMania313]

Thank you for the update. This is a huge help for people making the good ole American road trip. It would be catastrophic for someone to do months of planning, go through multiple states, and drive into an empty parking lot, especially with Sumer construction. You are an American Gem for this.

[@thelis4u]

Some of these parks make sense, because they aren't going into daily operations until school is out/they're stopping when school goes back, but how they reached the conclusion of closing SFM, SFDL, Frontier City, and SFOT in the middle of the weeks for the whole summer makes no sense. Especially when the really small parks like SFA, la ronde, and SFSL have basically normal operations.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Alright! A lot of Six Flags parks should host a National Roller Coaster Day event for National Roller Coaster Day on August 16th!

[@BigDCoasterFam]

I work at SDC and we have an influx of internationals this year (“the most we’ve ever had” I was told). We are at 7 day ops from May 22 - August 19.

[@just-dashin]

BREAKING NEWS: NEW SCHWARZKOPF TRACK FOUND IN THE INDIANA BEACH PARKING LOT the track seems to belong to a Schwarzkopf shuttle loop that was originally intended to be installed at Niagara Amusement Park.

[@supremefan]

I figured it was going there.

[@CaseFamilyVlogs]

So it's down? We're going there saturday

[@no2hiswear]

The ex Laser Loop from Kennywood I believe

[@ItsSiebay]

I’m not surprised, but I’m also not enthralled by this movement. Darien Lake was doing this last year, and I figured it was just because that park is in such a weird spot in the chain. Still, Over Texas going from basically year round to this is a big hit to that park.

[@christianmosby4539]

For Great America that’s pretty normal because it goes to weekends at the end of August anyway to start getting ready for fright fest, so that schedule is no big change!

[@AirtimeThrills]

Yeah SFGAM seemed like business as usual

[@Colaholiker]

Another great step on Selim's way of turning Six Flags into a premium brand. 😏

[@woodskevinm]

Thanks so much for the heads up Chris! Hopefully my upcoming road trip isn't affected going to WOF, SFSL, HW, BB, Magic Springs, and SDC for my trip around Holiwood Nights.

[@AirtimeThrills]

SFSTL seems like they're maintaining a solid schedule

[@woodskevinm]

@@AirtimeThrills absolutely! Worked out well.

[@Rickyfingers]

You just saved me. Was planning on going to Over Texas on the last Tuesday of June. I hope i can rebook my flights. Urgh.

[@nv_spartan1771]

I didn't realize that Six Flags was hurting this bad.

[@Roluth]

Darien July 30th is most likely due to Kingdom Bound, thats about the time of year they rent out the park.

[@grtjimmy06]

I'm sure staffing issues have a lot to do with it as well. Oddly enough, Great Escape is actually increasing operating days this summer...the last two seasons they have been closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays while they're returning to seven-day operations in July and August this summer.

[@WhatAG23]

Yay back to the discount chain

[@CalvinHughes-Thomas]

My plans for this summer consists of Kentucky kingdom, holiday world, and hopefully cedar point. (The only one I haven’t been to is holiday world but steel vengeance was closed when I last went to cedar point so I’m hoping to ride that)

[@SlimFury]

I am just glad Magic Mountain will be open 10:30 to 8 on 18/6 when I plan to go. I already planned on having a platinum Flash Pass.

[@homeboy_roy1570]

I couldn't imagine not living right between orlando and tampa and having to actually worry about a park's operation schedule

[@bennyhonna8195]

Darien Lake is open on July 30th because that is the week before the Canadian Civic holiday weekend and the park is very busy that week. My family goes most years and stay at the resort. At least half the people there that week are Canadian.

[@justinmaybach6388]

I’m pretty sure that Six Flags Darien Lake is open on the first Tuesday of July because it’s the same week as Independence Day and the last Tuesday of July for a music festival that happens at the park every summer.

[@cltcoasters]

Thank goodness, I'll be at Frontier City on June 10

[@COASTER_CHASER_1]

Great Escape hasn’t changed much from the past. They often wait till schools are about out being more in a tourist area. The only real change they have announced is that they are going to stay open an hour later on Saturdays from July through August till 9.

[@collinparsons3363]

You're right that Great Escape has always had a shorter season. They usually start the weekend before Memorial Day, and go daily by late June. Any weekdays before then are mostly for school groups, where the park opens earlier and closes earlier. As far as the closing times, they are simply restoring the hours they had prior to the covid/staffing cuts. It's 11-7 Monday-Thursday, 11-8 Fridays and Sundays, and 11-9 on Saturdays. From 2021 through 2023, it was 11-6 every day except Saturday which was 11-8.

[@mitchellries256]

The only way this impacts me is that I was supposed to visit Six Flags Magic Mountain on one of those Thursdays that it will be closed. But that won't be a problem. All I have to do is switch places with something else on my schedule and nothing should be affected in the end.

[@swifttttt]

This has already affected one of my trips this year, my visit to Great Escape is going from 3 days to 1. Really is unfortunate that Six Flags is unable to hire full staffs. Hopefully this is one of the issues that is solved post merger

[@CaseFamilyVlogs]

Any chances of doing a video with all the ride closures right now? The Beast, TT2, I305, Hyperia, etc

[@jameslitwin5635]

i305 is closed?

[@namevone]

Nighthawk at Carowinds is seemingly closed for the season too.

[@dadbodgamesquad]

@@namevoneI rode it yesterday

[@thecat3059]

@@jameslitwin5635 yes but project 305 is up and running

[@thecoasterauthority]

Why is the beast closed?

[@605coasters]

I guess it's good I'm not planning on visiting many, if any, SF parks this year 😞

[@Reality_a_thing]

The Tuesday closure for DL was normal last year or two years ago. I think that random Tuesday is during Kingdom Bound ( one of the largest Christian festivals in the U.S) But ,it’s likely not staffing issues . In the WNY area most schools don’t get out till mid june than they have exams. It’s more of them not doing enough advertising for jobs and them not offering as many perks as they used to being the issue . They as a business should know if they want to be open they need X amount of employees, seeing as their not really doing much to get more employees, shows that it’s not fully a staffing issue , but more poor management

[@AnotherSwissYoutubeUser]

American Park openings are so painfully cringe fr 🥶🥶 European Parks are open daily from March until like December/January

European parks are much smaller endeavours and generally cost less to operate.

[@TheBolligerMabillardLover]

Not Europa Park and Phantasialand and they are open every day in October, unlike every American park even the ones in warm weather except for the few in Florida and southern California.

[@infinitecoasters8769]

The Over Georgia schedule might be the norm for them. That was their schedule last year too iirc, kids in Georgia seem to go back to school really early.

As a person who lives in Georgia, truth betold. Some schools start Late July.

[@cccEngineer]

What sucks is I got the diamond pass thinking it was enough to enjoy all the parks but now I'm wondering if I even went across the country on a Wednesday would I get all the rides in

[@therock238360]

I’m pleasantly surprised Great Escape is gonna be open 7 days a week this season, especially with their past staffing problems. They’re opening a new roller coaster this year so that might be part of it

[@COASTER_CHASER_1]

They are also staying open an hour later Saturdays only July and august.

[@FryGuy909]

as a great escape local, I heard that apparently the only coaster open on opening weekend was their kiddie coaster. Idk what is going on with Six Flags this year. Maybe it's something to do with the merger idk.

[@CedarPointfan630]

Even with bobcat their gonna open the kiddie coaster instead lol

[@FryGuy909]

@@CedarPointfan630 tbf bobcat wasn't tested yet at the time

[@CedarPointfan630]

@FryGuy909 gotcha. Still looks like the best family wooden coaster so im happy for them.

[@OklahomaCoasterFan]

and we aren't even allowed to ride that kiddie coaster

[@FryGuy909]

@@OklahomaCoasterFan really glad I got that credit when I was younger

[@jsho574]

Magic Mountain closing for days seems so wild when it was the poster child for open 365 days a year. Guess they'll have to take the sign down

[@AirtimeThrills]

Yeah they started scaling that back a while ago, i guess they snapped back to the idea that losing money was more important than going for prestige

[@FameyFamous]

Has anyone reading this tried to get part-time work recently? Are wages a lot higher than previous summers? Maybe this would be a good time to ask for a raise!

[@1abrebel]

Damn over Georgia changed their schedule. Already had plans for a Thursday/Friday trip in August.... Looks like those plans are getting changed

[@rixrobin]

Feedback on a likely reason for SFoG going yo weekends in august. Alot of high schools in the area start back on the first week of august (earlier than most the country). So I imagine its related to staffing.

[@spentron1]

I don't think it's that different from last year.

[@alex33952]

This is a price increase. I think the number was too high that they wanted to adjust so this is the next option. Also I’ll say that the smaller parks might lose money on the weekdays

[@officialsamstermadness]

For my park (Great America) isn’t that bad.

[@Fury325Fan]

LET’S GO SURPRISE AIRTIME THRILLS VID!

[@RayBcv1030]

I just went to Six Flags St Louis last Friday and every coaster was open

[@AirtimeThrills]

St Louis has been really good about this every time I've been there

[@CoasterVisuals103]

Because it's a great park and the most underrated in the chain!

[@RayBcv1030]

@CoasterVisuals103 Yeah I enjoyed my time there for sure! I just wish it had a stronger lineup of Coasters. Aside from Mr. Freeze and Batman. They don't have much else thete

[@CoasterVisuals103]

@RayBcv1030 Boss is the best and most intense coaster in Missouri in my honest opinion. That's the only thing I wanna ride when I'm at sfsl. Also Screagle slaps!

[@RayBcv1030]

@CoasterVisuals103 Screamin Eagle wasn't terrible but holy hell that thing was rough. Boss was atrocious. I rode it both front and back and both were terrible. Unfathomably rough. Especially with those god awful gerstlaur trains which have zero padding. If RMC isn't in its future, I hope 9000 tons of dynamite are

[@jsdcool3401]

In new york school ends in late june so those scheduals make sense for june

[@OklahomaCoasterFan]

Yes. The Northeast stays in school later than most of the country, and Georgia returns to school stupidly early. That explains all those schedules. Over Texas is the big shocker, that such a major park in a highly populated area would close one day a week.

[@jordydejong3376]

makes sense ,most of the sixflags parks have way to many coasters to have them all running even one train on slower days anyways. Its not even a staffing issue its a solid business decision , usually Monday thru Thursdays are big money losing days. And to the people that are upset by this news , calm down , its a great way to keep the parks profitable and increase statisfaction , of course its amazing to go to a theme park on a midweek day in the offseason , but half the rides dont even run and 75% of the food options are closed anyways . Its awsome to marathon your favorite coasters but half of the coasters dont even run anyways or only open for a couple of hours later in the day.

[@jordydejong3376]

and also this is a not a impulse decision , they have a years of data to support such discussions

[@AirtimeThrills]

Weekdays in the summer, I can't imagine are money losers for the parks that draw well. Frontier City and Darien and Great Escape, yeah I can see that though

[@collinparsons3363]

@@AirtimeThrills Summer weekdays typically had a lot of camp groups, even at smaller parks like Great Escape. Is it possible that there are fewer of them than there used to be?

[@historypeep0965]

Well my school may be the reason why america is closed on the 11th but hey im only going because everyone else in my class is. The parks a sorry state (won't be getting a pass), going to kings dominion+busch+hersheypark this summer instead.

[@DHAdArchivez]

I think it’s obvious that Six Flags Great Escape’s June calander’s like that cuz folks still has things like *School* and work

[@gpcoasters7824]

5 1/2 Flags

[@gametime2473]

SFOG being closed almost all of August is ridiculous. It is still hot like summer during that month and school hasn't started up yet so why?

[@OklahomaCoasterFan]

Georgia starts school in late July. It is stupid to go back that soon, but that's what they do every year.

[@Coyotek4]

SFGA is the Jamarr Chase of theme parks: "I'm open ... I'm always ****in' open!"

[@zack9777]

could be mantience overhaul for the merger

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Right.

[@shadowlord9553]

error for six flags stl. picture shoes an extra week

[@1rhpsfan]

Are you going to rank every Roller Coaster in Six Flags New Orleans?

[@zacharyyamashita8554]

I could see Six Flags Discovery Kingdom this because, half the rides are down and according to screamscape, the park just doesn't want to fix them. Yeah Discovery Kingdom is indeed the official worst Six Flags park in the chain.

[@ninjagirl226]

Welp I need to rethink SFGA…nothing scheduled cause I am hoping to schedule it with a WI half marathon and well summer sucks for running so much I decided not to do the race at Kings Dominion this week because the heat has already caused me enough issues. But for the fall…hmmm…

[@AirtimeThrills]

Most of the other parks have their schedule posted beyond Labor day, I really don't know what it means that GADV doesn't

[@thecoasterauthority]

Same!! We had also planned to do the race at KD but scrapped that plan when we saw it was like $65 per person and decided to do bgw instead

[@ninjagirl226]

@@AirtimeThrills Thanks for the heads up. I live near Great Adventure. I haven’t been yet this year (debating on going this weekend), but I keep hearing awful things. Largely most their enhancements for the 50th aren’t complete, the surcharge, and rides not open. Like even today apparently there was a 70 min wait for Green Lantern and 150 min wait for Jersey Devil. Yes it’s the day after Memorial Day but it’s a Tuesday. On the bright side it looks like Flash is complete; on to testing.

[@ninjagirl226]

@@thecoasterauthority I do a lot of halfs and the race was a little pricy but not the worst I’ve seen. It was $95 if you have a pass and $115 if you didn’t for a last minute sign up; I think early sign up was closer to $80. In contrast the most expensive half I’ve done was the Rehoboth Beach half which was like $140 last year… But the heat is why I don’t feel like running. I did the Eisenhower half and Harper’s Ferry half the heat and humidity just kicked my sorry butt on both courses this spring. Got sick on both courses, but it’s alright I had one good race at Petersburg. And I’ll work hard this summer to kick butt in the fall.

[@jimmyhall4453]

Went to Six Flags over Georgia on Tuesday May 28 and it may as well have been closed.. I’ve never seen it with almost no people in it. The main roller coasters were open… No line is a good thing but don’t see them making too much $$

[@AirtimeThrills]

Sometimes these parks open a little bit before school lets out. Those are the best days

[@jzckvsn]

Can you do this with cedar fair too?

[@AirtimeThrills]

I can look but as far as I have heard they aren't having random closures

[@jzckvsn]

@@AirtimeThrills that’s fair, but also could be helpful for people planning trips like me(kings dominion) and want to know when the parks will be open

[@Johnnyiswhere]

Could this be an early indicator of which parks are on the chopping block?

[@AirtimeThrills]

Could be, but I don't think there's any surprise there (except SFOT)

[@biederland4926]

WTH SFOG!

[@MatecaCorp]

“We need to get more revenue!” “I know, lets’s refuse to take people’s money!”

[@AirtimeThrills]

Haha yeah BUT when you consider the overhead costs of opening up I can tell a lot of days they cannot be making money

[@MatecaCorp]

@@AirtimeThrills If the experience is good then people will come. Unfortunately for the Six Flags earnings report it seems that people are finally starting to get wise to their business model.

[@thecoasterauthority]

Yeah some days like these weekdays they’d have to pay more to operate on those days than they’d be getting from guests those days in revenue

[@MattMcIrvin]

@@AirtimeThrills It's not just Six Flags: I've been looking at the schedules of smaller local parks. Staffing is generally tough. Canobie Lake Park hasn't run at their pre-pandemic summer schedule since 2020; this year, they're managing a seven-day schedule for four weeks in July and August, and they're closed Tuesdays most of the rest of the summer, which I guess is pretty good all things considered. Compounce is doing a different strategy, seven days mid-June through mid-August but has more closed days outside of that.

[@ducksfan_1149]

premium schedule

[@johnnymacchicago]

So what do you think this means for the company? the merger?

[@AirtimeThrills]

It doesn't mean the company is in amazing shape but I don't think it's a big problem for the merger, it could just be them prepping for it

[@supremefan]

Yeah... can't wait to get a refund from a 3rd (or 4th) class action lawsuit against Six Flags! this ruined my June coaster trip.

[@StamfordBridge]

Painful! Sorry to hear it .

[@CoasterVisuals103]

Maybe you should talk about how cedar fair parks are doing the same thing in similar region's. Missouri for example Worlds of Fun stops weekday operations the same day as Sfsl. And they opened two months later the sfsl. But of course you thoosies will only ever critique six flags and try to make them look bad and cf cant do anything wrong

[@Jason_Maier]

Think that merger with Cedar Fair looks good?

[@AirtimeThrills]

I think so, this could be prep for the merger

[@Jason_Maier]

@@AirtimeThrills I'm wondering if certain lower tier parks of both chains (looking at Michigan's Adventure, Six Flags America, etc) will be sold off or closed?

[@ItsAllGood_]

This is a direct result of the current economic climate. Many people who would normally make amusement park trips just don't feel like they have the disposable income right now to do so. Amusement parks are anticipating this and adjusting schedules accordingly.

[@AirtimeThrills]

I wonder if the other chains are feeling the same pinch. I know inflation has punched everyone in the paycheck but it doesn't seem to always deter consumer spending, as long as those credit cards aren't maxed out

[@nevaehhamilton3493]

Six Flags is not gonna survive much longer as a company. The merger might end up becoming a huge failure, and Six Flags may go out of business.

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

Here we go again hate playing this game! How am I supposed to have a Six Flags day then? Thought cedar fair was babysitting them from here out? How bad are the weekday hours?? So adding a new ride to the parks every year backfired with their operation issues.

People overreacted about the merger... It's going to take some time for the feds to negotiate. Like... Disney-FOX took two years.

[@RankingTheMouse]

The hours for Frontier City, Over Texas/Georgia, & a few others are atrocious. This is a horrible look for 6F

[@edt-ze3ke]

OG’s schedule is normal cuz they go back to school so early

[@RankingTheMouse]

@@edt-ze3ke sure, if 6F only ever wants to be a regional-only park. It's a horrible schedule for a company pushing for out-of-state travelers & vacationers

[@AirtimeThrills]

I think it's more of an issue with staffing. A majority of their staff is probably in school (high school or college) locally

[@joepkamminga807]

Why is sunday on the beginning of your week????!!! It is weekend because the 2 days are on the end.... a week starts monday bro😂

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[@bjornvandenbremt1717]

This is complete BS! Travelling to California & Nevada the last 2 weeks of August and was planning on visiting Magic Mountain on a wedsnesday or thursday for the low crowds...and they're closed??? This is supposed to be the self proclaimed roller coaster capital of the world, in the 2nd biggest city of the US? What a BS move!

[@AirtimeThrills]

The days of 365 operations are gone

[@bjornvandenbremt1717]

@@AirtimeThrills I'm not expecting the parks to be open 365 days; but a major park in a major metropolitan area that closes during weekdays in August? What's that about, the good old Covid-19 days? Also, when I return I have a layover of a full day in Montréal and La Ronde is also closed...,on a friday in August! If you ask me, that's just bad management from six Flags in general. Happy they didn't last in Europe!

[@carminecdinoproductions]

This sucks…

[@karlsmith2451]

They need to be close two days a week , especially on Sunday anyway, it's God day, (Exodus 20 verse 8 & 10 ). No one is supposed to do know work anyway says the Lord thy God. Take heed to these warning signs people, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunami chaos, wildfires, floods, etc; even our economy, too much greed. Biblical Prophecy is at work. Repent, & stop forgetting the Lord thy God for Jesus is coming back soon.

[@michaelt3885]

Jesus is the only way into Heaven. Ask Him into your life. Cleanse you from ALL unrighteousness. Make Him your Lord & your Savior. One day, YOU will go to Heaven. Amen.

[@coasterfair2602]

I’m very concerned about the merger because if Six Flags themselves can’t do open every day with rides closed and etc then I have a feeling it’s a really bad idea for the merger with cedar fair parks 😞

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