“Last October, the CDC laid out a four phase approach to their Conditional Sail Order. Five months later, the CDC finally updated Phase 2 and added a new Phase 2B. The new phased approach is as follows:
Phase 1: Mass testing and lab capacity building Phase 2A: Voyage preparation Phase 2B: Simulated (trial) passenger voyages Phase 3: Conditional sailing certificate Phase 4: Restricted passenger voyages”
I notice there is no phase 5... normal free-market operations free from CDC meddling.
Three of the big cruise lines didn't wait for the CDC deception hey started to home port their ships out of this country to get Cruises going, and be free from our CDC.
CARNIAL stuck it out and got burned , but remember Carnival has several other cruise lines under its umbrella operating around the world free of CDC regs, so Carnival will get some revenue coming in.
Carnival portrayed itself as America's Cruise line and stayed her in the USA , but I believe they didn't want to compete with their other cruise lines worldwide, and decided to take a chance with the CDC allowing cruises from USA to continue because of vaccines.
Nobody can trust our CDC.-Tom