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KirkNC

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    Hal
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    Anywhere

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  1. I think this is less about cashflow than piss poor planning on someone’s part. We have over 1,000 days on cruise ships and outside of Covid, we have never run out of fuel. I feel the worst for our Philippine crew who had made arrangements for family visits that won’t take place as we are now losing a day in Manila as well as Hong Kong.
  2. Not sure two constituent all but I do believe cruise lines are under tremendous financial pressure. The big three issued massive debt and significantly diluted their existing shareholder base to survive the pandemic. The fruit from those decisions (not being critical as it’s how they survived) is starting to come due. AZ avoided that by getting sold but the equity owners typically expect significant returns and based on all the issues including the data conversion, AZ ships are not exactly sailing full. Now we have the Red Sea situation which is costing them a lot of money. Onboard the Onward our first five legs of the world cruise are nowhere near full, probably averaging around 550. Today we just learned we have to make an emergency stop to get fuel or we will not make it to Manila 🙄. I’ll take your bean counter comments as a compliment as I was one for forty years 😉.
  3. Am I the only one concerned about what this says about AZ cashflow? I see where insurance would cover a default loss but just the fact that AZ has to give up 7% of their profit to help fund current operations is not a good sign. Reminds me of Whimpy wanting a cheeseburger today but not paying until next Tuesday.
  4. Hey Bill, we are going from Dubai to Venice on a 34 day, 29 sea day jaunt. Minimal time in five ports, really just fuel stops.
  5. Personally, I wish they had done more stops in East and South Africa and dropped segment 10 but either way they were in a terrible position.
  6. The ship is going around Africa to Venice. 34 days of which 29 are sea days. Various comp offered.
  7. Last night on the Onward there were less than six tables in Prime C. The lamb chops were delicious. I previously said it was $30, it’s actually $35, we get the packages.
  8. Not for the Onward. We are still awaiting an update.
  9. Its $30 on the Onward right now
  10. We had one a few weeks ago on the Onward. It’s not a “standard” dinner. We asked the chef and he agreed to do it. I think there were about sixteen people, it was delicious.
  11. Ok you get the 10,000 page second menu 🙄.
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