ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World is still operating at a reduced capacity as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, but Disney officials hope to increase that steadily by the end of the year, company management said last week.
During a third-quarter earnings call Thursday, Chief Financial Officer Christine McCarthy said while Disney leaders are monitoring the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus — considered more contagious than other variants — they are increasing Disney parks’ capacities as demand grows.
“We’re expecting to have our parks, domestically, be fully staffed up by the end of this calendar year,” she said. “And we’re going to be increasing capacities as we have the demand and we’re also being able to train, thoroughly train, our employees as they come back in.”
