They’re bluffing. That would leave Baltimore, New Orleans, and San Juan. That isn’t viable. And fock them.
Great point.
Who wants the added sailing/fuel/airline expense of any of those locations.
Baltimore? Might as well dock at Haiti and get robbed at gunpoint.
“They’re bluffing.”
Don’t bet on it. While Florida is a huge market, they can simply avoid it, at least initially while relatively few are sailing.
As I see it, it’s a no-win for DeSantis. Either he lets them apply their universal vaccine policy (and piss off conservatives) or he very likely loses much, if not all of their business.
And the difference here is that it literally is NON-POLITICAL. The cruise lines want to get running again and not have virus breakouts on board, and they see the vaccine as the way to get there...or at least have deniability if people do get sick.
To me, the best outcome would be for the federal government to say that DeSantis can do whatever he wants on-shore, but when it comes to cruise line operations, that is under federal domain. The question is whether they’ll do that. If they’re smart, they won’t.
“They’re bluffing.”
totally: no other ports in the U.S. setup to handle this volume of these massive cruise ships and their hundreds of thousands of passengers ...