CRUISE WEEKLY NEWS
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Cruise Weekly has reported all of the important cruise industry stories since 2007. Subscribers receive a weekly newsletter each issue with all the details behind the stories below.
WITH the Human Biosecurity Emergency Period expiring last Sun, Ponant’s Kimberley expeditions are just around the corner.
PRINCESS Cruises has partnered with Rex Airlines, with the line’s guests now able to book flights through its EZair platform.
THERE are more than 9,000 pieces in LEGO’s Titanic kit, but that hasn’t stopped one of the toy line’s enthusiasts in North Carolina from constructing the gigantic model in world record time.
SUPREME Court of New South Wales Judge Peter Garling has awarded a group of Scenic Luxury Tours & Cruises passengers damages of up to 90% of the price they paid for flood-affected European river sailings in 2013 (CW 07 Apr 2015).
CARNIVAL Corporation President Australia Marguerite Fitzgerald has said the phones at P&O Cruises’ local call centres have been “overwhelmed”, as the line was welcomed home in Sydney yesterday after a two-year absence (CW 11 Apr).
PONANT President Herve Gastinel travelled to Sydney from the cruise line’s headquarters in Marseille last week to meet with key industry partners, in the lead-up to its highly anticipated Kimberley restart (CW 13 Apr), which is now less than 10 days away.
THE Australian Cruise Association (ACA) has welcomed the industry’s local restart, as the first internationally flagged ship arrived back in the country yesterday (see main story).
AMERICAN Queen Voyages (AQV) has appointed Isis Ruiz as its new Chief Commercial Officer, with Ruiz joining the Hornblower Group division after more than 20 years of cruise sector experience – most recently as Norwegian Cruise Line Chief Marketing Officer.
CELESTYAL Cruises recommenced cruises yesterday, with its first sailing departing Athens.
THERE were helicopters, boats, tugboats with water cannons and long-range lenses a-plenty to capture the arrival of P&O Australia’s Pacific Explorer into Sydney yesterday (see page 1).
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