To: qam1
"We've never understood why it was not successful . . . We should've been sailing full," Carnival spokesman Tim Gallagher told the Miami Herald. Golly Timmy, treating 25 percent of your potential customer base like lepers and criminals might have had something to do with it.
4 posted on
02/05/2004 7:22:57 PM PST by
Johnny_Cipher
(Making hasenfeffer out of bunnyrabbits since 1980)
To: Johnny_Cipher
... treating 25 percent of your potential customer base like lepers and criminals might have had something to do with it. Are you saying that smokers make up 25% of the 'cruise customers'? I've never been on one, but that figure sounds pretty high to me. I'm curious what percentage of the population smokes. From the statistics I have read, the smoker's predominate the lower income brackets. I'd attribute the lack of passengers to the stock market setbacks, the recent recession and the lost jobs in the IT industry. Cruises aren't typically a cheap thing. The economy was probably more of a factor than anything else.
5 posted on
02/05/2004 7:31:15 PM PST by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Johnny_Cipher
We're going to need another Timmy!
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