Since Flight of Passage first opened in 2017, the Avatar E-Ticket has been one of the most popular rides not only in Animal Kingdom but the whole Walt Disney World Resort.
However, despite widespread acclaim and massive wait times, there are still some changes both Disney and guests should make regarding the ride.
Fix the 3D Glasses
Flight of Passage uses a newer style of 3D glasses – also used on Star Tours and formerly Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure – that look cool and modern, but keeping them on your face is a different story. They barely fit over glasses, and because they’re so narrow, it’s hard to push them back enough on your face to stay with classes.
The style currently used on Toy Story Mania would work much better.
A New Seating Option is Necessary
We know the thematic idea of the attraction is for guests to feel like they’re riding on the back of a banshee, but once you’re strapped into the bike-like ride vehicle with your calves squeezed, you might want to hop off. Besides these just being uncomfortable to straddle, they also aren’t accommodating of all body types and disabilities.
Disney could take a page from another of their attractions – TRON Lightcycle / Run – which has similar bike-like seats. However, Tron also features something that Flight of Passage doesn’t: There are a few trains with normal seats in the back. You can sit in a more traditional roller coaster chair and have a lap bar pulled down in the front. Flight of Passage desperately needs an option like this to help more people enjoy the ride.
Add New Scenes
Since Flight of Passage opened in 2017, two Avatar sequels – 2022’s The Way of Water and 2025’s Fire and Ash – have been released, with 4th and 5th films scheduled to be released in 2029 and 2031. In other words, there’s plenty of narrative material that can be used to plus up the ride with new scenes and other additions, all of which would narratively fit in the timeline of Animal Kingdom’s Pandora.
Aim for Lightning Lanes or Rope Drop
This one’s for guests. Flight of Passage has always drawn HUGE crowds and long waits since it opened, and demand is only going up right now, given the paucity of open attractions at Animal Kingdom due to construction. It’s definitely a ride that’s worth picking up a Lightning Lane Single Pass or trying to rope drop.
As popular as Flight of Passage remains, some definite changes would benefit the Animal Kingdom headliner. Stay tuned to AllEars for more Disney takes.
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What would you change about Flight of Passage? Let us know in the comments below.
I’ve never been able to ride. I have lymphedema in both legs and every time I try to ride, the leg restraints won’t engage. Luckily the rest of my family gets to ride while I get to wait in the little side room.
WHEN I WENT IN 2024 i couldn’t ride the ride my legs wouldn’t fix and seat was pushed to hard,felt sick and had to get off. They need to fix the seating
The reason riders have to tuck their belongings in the back of the shelves, is because overhanging items will be shorn off and destroyed during the ride, as the audience wall unit goes up and down. Turn around and face the back wall some time, and you’ll realize how impossible some of the well-intentioned suggestions for modifying the ride would be to implement, beyond a complete ground-floor-up re-engineering of the ride. That said, Disney has already refurbished some of the Flight of Passage seating units; they are more comfortable and accommodating of taller and larger guests. That is proof of concept for interactive seats that would accommodate a panoply of differently abled guests.
Fix the blur!
Your recommendation for an alternate seat to accommodate more body types is spot on!! The current seats are a huge drawback for people whose legs won’t slip into the right angle for the barrier to close.
You forgot fixing the blurry screens.
My husband’s body type doesn’t allow him to ride, shorter,plus he has lymphedema in one leg so that leg is more swollen than his other leg. The restraint won’t clamp on his leg. Meanwhile I’m taller, and the leg restraint doesn’t even touch my calves
The biggest thing I would change (not just on this ride but at Disney all together) is queue jumping! The amount of times we have been to Disney we have never noticed it as bad as it was in summer 2025.
One person leaving the queue “to go to the bathroom” and return with 12 family members. Other people just walking the entire length of the line exclaiming the rest of their family is upfront. And the excuses go on and on!
Go to the bathroom before you start to queue or how about – you’re an adult, learn to hold it!!!! And no, I don’t really care if your entire family including your great, great, great grandparents are at the front, tough!!! When you are that wound up from queue jumpers you can barely enjoy the ride you’ve waited 2 hours for regardless of how uncomfortable the seats or 3D glasses are.
I would welcome any style of 3D glasses – as long as they didn’t give double vision! The current ones are such a mess they wreck the experience in certain scenes – especially with the jellyfish.
The ride needs a new system to strap in. Those with long legs cant get into the ride. I am almost 6ft tall, my legs can lock in cause cause my knees are already smushed to the wall the back can not lock down. So I had to get off my paid LL. And their comp for LL is just 3 reg passes which is a rip off.