Cannon Lover's Thread

[jcw]

Jace- curious to hear your thoughts on how Indy Pass has been working for Cannon. With their change in pricing for next season (I.e the plus pass only $50 more then the regular) they’ll presumably sell many more blackout-free passes. Cannon and others have blacked out most peak days to make it work….does this change the calculus at all?

Likely inappropriate for me to go into detail here. There are a few knowns any skier looking closely would observe:

- Indy is an important line of business; it's one of several.

- With intention, we kept our blackout policy in place this year.

- Generally, there are always opportunities for process improvement when it comes to sophisticated tech applications like reservations, redemptions, systems integration, access control, etc.

- Cannon is popular amongst Indy passholders -- and that's a great thing.

 

[snoseek]

I picked up my pass today. The place is skiing all time. Chalky bumps all morning along with absolute ripping groomers. When its like this cannon is hard to beat.

 

[Zap71]

Got about 80 days in so far some days only a few runs due to conditions hope the melt goes away soon though early march good snow year bases shoul last a while

 

[doublediamond]

Is there a reason with an Indy redemption, the ticket seller has to walk back to some other computer to do part of the transaction only to come back to the Endibani terminals up front? Waste of time especially when the line is a mile long like it was Wednesday.

 

[urungus]

Is there a reason with an Indy redemption, the ticket seller has to walk back to some other computer to do part of the transaction only to come back to the Endibani terminals up front? Waste of time especially when the line is a mile long like it was Wednesday.

Once you have a Cannon RFID card, you can do your Indy Pass redemption entirely online and go straight to lift

 

[jcw]

Is there a reason with an Indy redemption, the ticket seller has to walk back to some other computer to do part of the transaction only to come back to the Endibani terminals up front? Waste of time especially when the line is a mile long like it was Wednesday.

Yes. Indy Pass information, including confirming a redemption or processing a walkup with no reservation, requires us to log into a separate system, then bring that info into our terminals to process your RFID card.

 

[machski]

I had not been since RFID cards came in with Indy. I set up my day 1 online and it made my window stop on Tuesday about 15 seconds to pick up my card. Super easy.

 

[ceo]

Yes. Indy Pass information, including confirming a redemption or processing a walkup with no reservation, requires us to log into a separate system, then bring that info into our terminals to process your RFID card.

That's kind of surprising given it's Entabeni hardware all over the place.

 

[Newpylong]

Well every mountain has its own RFID system (though many use Axis hardware) regardless of the POS system. That's why you can't just show up with the Indy Pass and have it scan at the lifts.

 

[doublediamond]

Cannon uses Entibani POS terminals at the ticket booth and Entibani hand held scanners.

 

[crystalmountainskier]

That's kind of surprising given it's Entabeni hardware all over the place.

The Indy Pass card doesn't even work at Black Mountain, which Entabeni owns. They make you buy another $5 card in addition to the $10 card you already bought.