Posted on 01/06/2021 7:49:36 AM PST by Capt. Tom
Carnival Cruise Line has announced further cancellations, and it now means that no Carnival cruise ships will sail in March. It delays the resumption of operations until April at the very earliest.
Carnival Cancels All March Sailings Carnival Cruise Line has announced a new round of cancellations, and the suspension of operations will continue until April 2021. Select ships will also be delayed due to dry dock upgrades. Here is the full list of which ships are delayed and the current situation:
All embarkations from U.S. homeports through March 31, 2021 Carnival Freedom from Galveston through April 10, 2021 (which includes a repositioning of the ship from Galveston to Seattle and a 17-day Carnival Journeys cruise which is not allowed under the current guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)) Carnival Miracle from San Diego and San Francisco through September 16, 2021 (which includes many 10-day and longer itineraries not allowed under the current CDC guidelines) Carnival Liberty from Port Canaveral from September 17-October 18, 2021 (to accommodate rescheduled dry dock work) Carnival Sunshine from Charleston from October 11-November 13, 2021 (to accommodate rescheduled dry dock work) Carnival Spirit’s 15-day cruise from Singapore to Brisbane on June 12, 2021 (consistent with the current limitations on international travel in place in Australia). This announcement was expected with many cruisers already noticing on social media that Carnival had removed all sailing in March 2021 from its booking engine.
Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said:
“We are sorry to disappoint our guests, as we can see from our booking activity that there is clearly a pent-up demand for cruising on Carnival. We appreciate their patience and support as we continue to work on our plans to resume operations in 2021 with a gradual, phased in approach.”
Impacted Guests The Miami-based cruise line is contacting guests and travel agents impacted by the new round of cancellations. The cruise line is offering a Future Cruises Credit (FCC) and onboard credit. Guests can alternatively request a full refund if they no longer want to cruise in the future.
The Delays Keep on Coming
As the pandemic sweeps across the United States and the world, cruising continues to be on hold. Carnival Cruise Line hoped to return with a limited number of ships in March 2021, but now this won’t be the case.
The Conditional Sailing Order implemented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) needs cruise lines to implement many changes to make sure guests and crew remain safe.
With the fleet being on hold for almost a year, it’s not easy to prepare the ships. Crew members need to be brought back and trained along with test sailings. Cruise Hive has already reported on several ships recently returning to the U.S. to start the preparations.
With cruise lines not not being able to offer cruises longer than seven days, many itineraries have been moved until November 2021 and that has impacted operations for ships that sail Carnival Journeys and longer sailings.
It’s going to be a long recovery for the cruise industry.
Previous Cancellations Carnival has suspended operations since March 2020. The cruise line had previously cancelled scheduled sailings out of Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston through February 28, 2021.
The original hope was that cruises would resume once 2021 arrived but the return dates seem to keep being delayed. Carnival’s new Mardi Gras which is the most anticipated new cruise ship for 2021 is delayed until April 24 out of Port Canaveral.
Looks like we are going to experience a radical change in our government in 2021, and IMH0 it will pose another hurdle for the cruise lines and the American jobs connected to that foreign industry. -Tom
An industry built on social mingling, they’re in a very tough spot.
How much money can the cruise lines stand to pay out maintaining the ships and crew?
Though on second thought, maybe April is when saint biden and saint harris save us from the evil Trump kungflu.
The environmentalist idiots hate cruise ship.
The anti cultural appropriation weirdos hate tourism
The AGW ideolouges think they contribute too much greenhouse gas.
The Covid scaredy-cat are too afraid.
All these groups Dog-Face and pony Soldier’s ear.
They will kill cruising. It is dead.
You may be right, the future is pretty foggy right now. Hard and fast crackdown on us or slow walk it?
If the “green” new deal passes it will kill cruise lines and a lot of other businesses.
Cruises will not occur from US ports anytime in 2021. That industry will soon be dead.
Here’s something you might find interesting:
“Which Cruise Ships Will Be Scrapped Or Taken Out of Service Because of the COVID-19 Pandemic?”
Several Carnival ships mentioned.
https://www.cruisecritic.com/news/5423/
Yes just got the dreaded EMail at 10am today...
3 more cruises cancelled...a 4 day and 2 5 days B2B2B out of Jacksonville...was just going to stay on the ship in the ports...
Next up the first cruise of the Mardi Gras on April 24...the Mardi Gras is on the way from the shipyards...been in Barcelona for the last 2 days...
However when she gets to Port C she still has to have those modifications done ...
I NEED A CRUISE !!!!
I was amazed when NCLH went to high 20’s a few weeks ago.
I sold shares that i started buying at $10 and even below.
I am out of the market except for some industrial shares. I might sell those today as they have also done quite well.
I’m looking at Gen Flynn’s martial law plan soon. I want nothing to do with the market until stability again.
I have a NCLH cruise scheduled for the spring. I am about to cancel that as it is for me an extravagant one to the south pacific. Maybe next year.
Last year I bought two tranches of Carnival, one at $8.80 per share and another larger tranche at $7.70 per share. Then I sold when they hit $24.91 and did pretty good on it.
My automated sell order was for $25 and when I heard it was rising I sold anyway. Turned out to be a cautious but timely move.
Of course, the cruise ships could be re-purposed to either floating movie theaters, or offshore storage for democrat ballots for the next election.
That would vary from line to line but the Cruise lines are saying they can go for 6 months or more without income. IMHO the problem is they are doing it with someone else's money.(billions borrowed) and some of their own.
Somewhere along the line the creditors may say "Enough" and force a bankruptcy while the creditors stand a chance to get their money back.
This has already happened last year with some of the smaller Cruise lines.
The Cruise lines themselves can ask for bankruptcy protection while they reorganize, or a different type of bankruptcy and just go out of business.-Tom
Let's hope it goes through.
With all the new ships coming online, the Cruise lines need to get going, even if in limited capacity.
Our port workers and other related jobs need to get back to work. -Tom
With the new Biden administration coming in Dr Fauci is hinting at a Fall turn around but doesn't mention Cruise lines which history shows will lag the recovery.
Copy and paste in the Free Republic link below; -Tom
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