Carnival Corp’s CEO Micky Arison. His company is now offering a 30% discount to shipwrecked victims of the Costa Concordia on future cruises. Is this a sick joke? Who is doing Carnival’s PR? Descendants of Joseph Geobbels?
Posted on 01/22/2012 9:03:39 PM PST by Daffynition
Cruise and Liner History: The offer of a 30 percent discount on future cruises, made by the owners (Micky Arison’s Carnival Corp) of the recently shipwrecked Costa Concordia (Costa Cruises), has been faced with a number of angry responses from passengers of the ill-fated luxury liner.
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Carnival Corp’s CEO Micky Arison. His company is now offering a 30% discount to shipwrecked victims of the Costa Concordia on future cruises. Is this a sick joke? Who is doing Carnival’s PR? Descendants of Joseph Geobbels?
This outfit will be lucky to still be sailing after all the lawsuits.
Maybe the same person who hires the Captains and trains the crews.
Don’t you realize that all those people who were not injured in any way deserve to be given millions of dollars? for some reason...
This would have made a great episode of ‘Undercover Boss’.
Since the ship will probably be sold for scrap, maybe the passengers should be given dive suits and cutting torchs and be given all that’s cut off.
They should have at least offered 50% off! and re-pay them their ticket price—and pay funeral expenses for those who lost their lives.
It was not anything that could be judged an Act of God or an Act of Nature. It was the actions of the man that Costa hired to run the ship. They chose poorly. Things like that have to be paid for.
That’s the sort of offer I might make if I were a competitor. Actually, on second thought, it wouldn’t be 30%. It be 100%, or it wouldn’t be.
Cruise ship passengers don’t strike me as adrenaline junkies, I imagine that more than a few little old ladies, kids and moms and others, may never want to sail again. This was nasty business.
Offering them a chance to try again at 30% off, as soon as they can find all the bodies and get the dead buried, and replace the sunken ship, seems to reveal a management that is out of touch with reality.
I believe the offer is a free ticket on your next voyage or 30% in cash of the ticket’s worth if for some reason you have nightmares about sailing again.
Everone's life was put at risk through negligence. If someone put you, or your family members, lives at risk - real risk, as in there is a genuine possibility that they might die, and no one knows if they will - and then they don't nor is there any physical or apparent mental or emotional injury, is there any harm from the imposition of the negligent risk to their lives, per se?
1st Hint: YES.
2nd Hint: It is PRESUMED to exist because of the legitimacy of the threat.
3rd Hint: Imagine society and law if such a presumption was NOT made.
We just tried to kill you; so here’s a coupon, except for the dead. No coupon for you.
The least the survivors should get is a full refund. The families of the dead will have a field day in court with this company.
Last I heard from some TV report they are/were holding out home they can repair it.
If they somehow can manage that, good luck getting people to sail on it again.
(BTW I read your comment anyway and thought it was one of the best ones.)
Exactly! If you're going to come out and make an offer at the very least it should be free. If not, don't offer anything and keep quiet.
My mom got 60% off her next cruise when the cruise she originally took had to change destinations/itineraries due to an approaching Hurricane and she ended up cruising through the Panama Canal and Pacific route instead of in the Caribbean. She got 60% off for her next cruise because of the itinerary change.
They are out of their minds. This is cheap, petty, insulting, and wrongheaded on every level.
I would...
..with (at minimum) a new bridge crew.
It’s not like the ship itself malfunctioned, or sprung a leak because it was made of balsa wood and egg cartons below the waterline.
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