Posted on 01/01/2022 1:36:03 PM PST by Capt. Tom
The cruise industry is sailing on for now despite travel warnings from health officials. But it hasn’t been smooth sailing, and plenty of hurdles remain.
As of Saturday afternoon, there were no reports of any cruise voyage cancellations,
Patrick Scholes, a travel and leisure analyst at Truist Securities, points out that the CDC’s action comes at an especially bad time for the cruise operators.
Woronka says that enthusiasm for cruising remains strong among travelers. The largest bucket of cruise customers, he says, “are going to go” on sailings.
“The market is saying that these disruptions are not going to cripple the cruise companies,” Woronka says. “They’ve got pretty sufficient liquidity buffers to get through this. The view is that the CDC does not derail the second half of ’22 and ‘23 recovery.”
Royal Caribbean said in its release Thursday that “none of the Omicron cases [aboard its ships] have been severe” or required hospitalization.
It added that “almost everyone onboard” its ships have been vaccinated. The company, which resumed U.S. sailings in June, said it has carried 1.1 million guests on its ships since then, with 1,475 people testing positive—a rate of 0.02%.
Carnival and its peers had been shut down from sailing in and out of U.S. ports for about 15 months starting in March 2020 due to the pandemic.
Royal Caribbean’s load factors, essentially bookings, for sailings in the first half of this year are below historical levels but are within their historical ranges for the second half of 2022, the company said.
Royal Caribbean said in its release that the travel industry has been “experiencing significant disruptions by air transport and other service providers due to the spread of Omicron.”
As of mid-Saturday afternoon, there were about 2,500 flight cancellations within, into or out of the U.S.,
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Once again they is anyone guess. -Tohave pushed out the recovery until the second half of this year.
Looks like the first half
Before I got to finish my comments, it posted my thread.
OH well, such is the way my computer operates.
In any event, Happy New Year, to all the Freepers! -Tom
Snifflecron! Let’s shut down the country!
Good.
Why can’t the cruise lines just go out with no port calls. Enhance onboard entertainment.
Good! So it looks like my Jan. 21 Celebrity Cruise to the Caribbean is...ON! BTW, I will probably get Wi-Fi for my cabin so I will be posting videos from shipboard on what the cruise in the Age of Covid Panic is like. One fringe benefit is FEWER passengers than normal.
We are scheduled to hit 4 islands. Bimini, Bonaire, Curacao, and Aruba. I need to swim there just to work off the buffet line weight I will probably put on. (Must avoid the cheese cake because it is like food CRACK for me.)
“Why can’t the cruise lines just go out with no port calls. Enhance onboard entertainment.”~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Because of the Passenger Vessel Serices Act.
You can read about it, and the Jones Act, in the link below. -Tom
Alternately, not stop in the US, but have passengers fly to some accommodating country, do the cruise, and fly back.
Which Celebrity ship will you be on?
Cruise lines create PVSA-compliant itineraries, but sometimes the chaos of travel intervenes. If a passenger disembarks early (perhaps due to a medical emergency) without calling on the foreign port, the line risks getting fined. Cruise travelers who miss the ship are also not allowed to embark in just any port of call. They must board in a place in the itinerary that includes a foreign port as part of the remaining portion of the cruise.
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It takes the federal government to concoct such confusing laws!
How about a cruise for 100% unvaxxed. I’ll go.
Compare Cruise-ship Vs. Flights
On flights, people sit shoulder to shoulder, and exhale air into a closed tube. Before the exhaled air flows out to a filter, it passes several people nearby. The mask borders are not airtight so air escapes around the mask. Even the mask material can not stop exhaled virus material since the virus size is extremely small and 99% of masks can not stop them from passing through.
On cruise ships, you have air space 10,000 bigger than volume of aircraft shell. And there is every opportunity for social distancing.
When people exit the aircraft, they are not tested for infection. All 300 people on a jumbo plane could be infected, but nobody will know about it. You will never see it on the news.
On a cruise ship, if one gets symptoms of covid, you are required to report to the medical staff on ship. The staff can then test all contacts with the infected person. If more than 2 or 3 are infected it becomes news.
On my cruise last September & November, every passenger was required to show certificate of full vaccination. And every passengers was required to get a negative test for covid within 48 hours of sailing. But the passenger could get infected on the flight to the cruise terminal city, and no one would know about it.
But CDC is singling out cruise industry, and airlines are not being restricted.
How about the restaurant industry? That is even more risky for passing infections than airlines. Because no one is asked of any proof of negative covid test before being served. At least you have to show a negative test result before boarding the aircraft.
The Equinox and I think I will be posting videos from there so folks can see what it is like to cruise in the Age of the Pandemic Panic.
We were just on that in August for 12 nites. Have you sailed a lot?
DEMOCRATS (BUREAUCRATS....same thing) DESPISE the Cruise Industry because people are having FUN!!! DEMOCRATS HATE CLEAN FUN!
And the democrats (another name for liberals) hate cruise industry because people on welfare generally can not afford cruises. The democrat agenda is to lower everyone to the lowest level so we are all equal. Except for the ruling class of course. Notice majority of Billionaires are democrats.
The cruise industry is simply not bribing the right politicians. Foreign registry may also be a factor.
Good to see they’re not letting media hysteria stop them.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!
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