Posted on 05/22/2022 10:34:22 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
They, with the exception of Carnival, have managed to avoid the bad press of covid infections onboard, by continuing with a business as usual approach.
The lines avoid any talk about the inflation rate worldwide as though all its customers are immune to it.
But crew shortages are starting to factor into the comebacks now, and we will see how this recovery plays out in the longrun.
To bad you can't spend the money on these record bookings by credit cards to pay off your Billions of dollars in debt- yet. - Tom
so even the third world refuses to work on these ships
The reason for the shortage is that all their would be employees are lined up to cross our southern border.
One of my buds is a Filipino dude. Right wing. It is a fact that a third of seafarers are Filipinos and he directly knows one of the guys who runs the mariner schools in Manila. He tells me the cruise ships want a double shot of the fake vaxx, and there were adverse effects on a number of them which scared off the the rest of the lower batches.
The Pride of America is covered by the Jones Act, so there are US citizenship requirements for the crew. There are minimum manning requirements for the deck and engine departments which if not met, the ship cannot sail. So the crew shortages are mostly likely occuring in the “hotel” side of the ship, wait staff, room stewards, etc.
The entire crew is covered by various collective bargaining agreements.
Come back from every cruise with covid because they made you take the jab which allows you to get covid multiple times?
They know how risky it is to get so many jabs and want no part of any mandatory jabbing. They’re not stupid.
Thanks for sharing that.
Who needs a buffet? Sail on the new Horn and Hardart cruise lines!
Carnival has stripped the Diamonds and Platinums (Elites) of all their goodies ...lunches, parties etc
Plus theres no more events for veterans ...
I’d introduce adventure.
Sail on the Andrea Dorea II in dense fog! Get that apartment you always wanted!
Everyone gets a sack lunch.
Plus theres no more events for veterans ...
If you noticed I singled out Carnival as not getting the message about keeping their mouth shut about things detrimental to cruising. No wonder the press uses them in articles against cruising.
The other lines just lie and obfuscate about their problems. -Tom
Tom, are any cruise lines porting in FL/USA accepting non-vaxed customers? Or is vax still a CDC requirement?
FYI, a friend recently went out of FL. A group of eight. 5 of 8 got covid. No on got very sick but did test positive. All were together a lot. Including car rides.
No I read it first in Cruise Hive ...
But its a fact ...
Another big problem with carnival alone is that in their warp speed attempt to be first to have all their ships back sailing they had to thinly divide their available staff and crew amongst them all ...
That wasnt too bad when there were just a few ships and a very limited passenger capacity ... about 50%
But now they also boast they are back up to full capacity but they dont have the staff and crew to handle all those passengers ...
Then they put the prices for everything up last month but had to offer 50& off last week ...
All they have to do is get rid of their cruise line mandated jabs requirement and they will go a long way to improving their lot ...
A big problem with covid is they can't figure out where and when you got it, because some people come down with it 2 days after exposure, some may take 14 days after exposure.-Tom
Unfortunately for the cruise lines in the USA, it looks like the unvaccinated are off limits, through 2022. -Tom
Thanks! Are any cruise lines porting in FL/USA accepting non-vaxed customers? Or is vax still a CDC requirement?
Gov. Ron Desantis had a law overturned, that stopped cruise lines from discriminating against non- vaxxed passengers.
It pretty well allowed the cruise lines to set their own rules.
Most of the Florida Cruise lines decided to placate the CDC by requiring 90-95% fully vaccinated passengers onboard. Then they made it more restrictive for unvaccinated passengers , like not being able to go on shore excursions on their own.
Since it is basically up to the cruise lines whether you are vaccinated or not, you might find a cruise line that is attuned to taking more unvaxxed passengers, they will be few and far between. -Tom
The Pride of America is a US flagged and crewed ship.
Ha!
No pilots, no FAA airmen, no ship staff….hmmmm….what could possibly be the cause of all of this labor shortage??
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