Walt Disney World as the Lake Buena Vista STOLport. During the early 1970s, scheduled passenger service was operated by Shawnee Airlines with small de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter commuter turboprops which had STOL (short take off and landing) capabilities on flights to Tampa and Orlando. The airport is no longer in operation. When the Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, the site employed about 5,500 "cast members". Today, Walt Disney World employs more than 74,000 cast members, spending more than $1.2 billion on payroll and $474 million on benefits each year. The largest single-site employer in the United States, Walt Disney World has
Disney Magic of the RMS "Queen Mary", the Disney Line "Disney Magic" set sail on its maiden voyage on July 30, 1998, out of Port Canaveral, Florida, as the cruise line's launch ship. The ships initial cruises were to Nassau, Bahamas, with a stop at Castaway Cay, over three to four nights. However, as of 2011, "Disney Dream" has taken over doing these cruises. Originally, from 2000, "Disney Magic" had been offering weekly cruises to Castaway Cay and multiple Caribbean islands out of its home port in Port Canaveral. In June 2005, "Disney Magic" was dispatched to the West Coast in honor