Is Maxair Open?

I heard there is a ride night for employees for maxair tonight. But how can they already plan something for a ride that is not guaranteed fixed yet?

I was in the park today. Maxair was testing all day. Looks like it's close to opening.

It was running all afternoon. I asked the ride op if there was a chance that it would open today and he said no.

They did indeed have a ride night for employees tonight.

Maxair seemed to still be having some difficulties during the ride night last night, but it's operational at least.

maXair is indeed operational, but there are still a lot of things that need to be fixed, the biggest issue is parking. For some reason (I haven't bothered trying to get the details) the gondola does not park properly, in that seats 1 and 50 aren't the two middle seats on the load side. I am not sure if it is still parking "randomly" or if the program is parking it in a regularly wrong position now, but at least it is hitting "home" as far as vertical parking goes.

As for the parts taking so long to arrive, well, it is a rather funny story from what I know and have heard. Let's just say that people at fabrication plants in Detroit don't like getting instructions in German.

Were 1 and 50 always at that spot before? I guess I never thought about, or paid attention to where it stops in relation to where it started.

Yes, seats 1 and 50 are the seats in the middle of load, directly in front of the op when parked properly. That is why they always line up seats 1-25 on the left side of the load platform, and seats 26-50 on the right. Seats 25 and 26 are the middle seats on unload. With an improperly parked gondola, it has to be pretty confusing for both the guests and the ops, or more likely infuriating for the ops dealing with the guests who don't know their numbers.

For some people you almost have to stamp the number on their hand so they don't ask the ride ops again "What's my Number"? I think it's a matter of people not paying attention when they tell you your number.

I know, and its bad enough when the gondola is parked properly, but when the numbers aren't where they should be...

When I rode Maxair today it parked correctly around 6:30pm, maybe they fixed it as well? I was in seat 24 and started and stopped in the same spot.

Either way, it was great to ride it again!

maXair is still not open because of testing. Even though most of you see it running, it still needs to be worked on because of the part that had to be sent.

Congratulations Cedar Point on hearing our cries.

^^ - so then why are guests riding it?

I think it is open today. My only reason for thinking this is they removed the this ride will be closed today on the maxair web page.

On the website it doesn't say it is closed. However WildCat and Chaos are closed.

Is it broken again yet?

Did anyone go today? Was it open?

maXair was down as of my leaving the park at around 6:45 tonight, though it was up and running a few hours before park closing last night. Also, as of last night, the gondola was still not parking correctly from what I saw on the midway while taking pictures. Just because your seat stopped in the same spot as when you started, doesn't mean that it is actually parked in the correct position. Until the ride is reprogrammed, it won't park correctly. Its idea of "home" has been somewhat permanently messed up.

Maxair never opened yesterday 5/21. They did limited testing later in the day.