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I had to excerpt this article from a non -Cruising source to put IMHO, a realistic approach to the future of the Cruise Industry and the BILLIONS OF dollars they have borrowed and re-borrowed to get them through a pandemic lasting or 6 moths or a little longer, or so they thought..
As I speculated in previous posts the Lines should have adopted a cut back program in anticipation of a leaner future. But instead they went on a happy talk agenda, including pent up demand. Talking about the far future and painting a rosy picture of their future.
Time makes all things clear, and we will see if the decide to scale back their expectations for the future. -Tom
This thread was born for you.
Screw Royal Caribbean. Booked a cruise with them last May for this December, no COVID vaccine requirement. This August they made it mandatory, nobody in our party want to do this and they refused to refund our money. Had to have the credit card company intervene in order to get a refund.
An alternative is to take the masks off, stop the social distancing nonsense and get back to normal life.
“I’ll take ‘reasons to stop virtue signaling vaccination demands’, for $200 Alex.”
I’ve been receiving emails from Cunard for the last month or so. They seemed to be going back to a fairly normal schedule.
The point being that if a cruise line needs to have X ships sailing to stay intact, then their emergency plans would reflect staying that size. Can a cruise line go from (pick some numbers) 100 ships to 25 and stay in business, or does he overhead overwhelm operations?
How are these companies still in business?
Who in the hell would go on a cruise these days?
Having been on 6 cruises (Royal Caribbean, always) loving them all!
I would NEVER go on another cruise while COVID is in the world.
That is likely the rest of my life, since they refuse to admit that it is the VAXXINES that are prolonging this disease.
HERD immunity “is the ONLY WAY to be sure”.
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Better their stock than their ships sinking.