Cruise lines extend suspension of sailings by a month due to Covid-19

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>P&amp&semi;O Cruises and Cunard have extended the suspension of sailings by a month&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The cruise lines were previously due to resume operations on April 11&comma; but they have been cancelled up to and including May 15&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Customers with a holiday booked up to and including that date will automatically receive credit for a future sailing worth 125&percnt; of the cost of their original trip&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The firms are both part of the Carnival group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">Regrettably&comma; P&amp&semi;O Cruises is extending its pause in operations up to and including 15 May&comma; 2020 as a result of the continued impact of COVID-19&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here’s P&amp&semi;O Cruises President Paul Ludlow with an update on the extension&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;dOzjsziXu8">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;dOzjsziXu8<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; P&amp&semi;O Cruises &lpar;&commat;pandocruises&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;pandocruises&sol;status&sol;1244565030181445633&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 30&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>P&amp&semi;O Cruises president Paul Ludlow said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is clear that our original date of April 11 to resume sailings&comma; which would have been a 30-day pause in operations&comma; is just not feasible in light of the Government announcements last week&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Regrettably&comma; therefore&comma; we are now extending this pause until May 15&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Given the current guidelines&comma; it is prudent and practical to extend the pause until normal operations can be resumed&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As we work through the evolving restriction on ports around the world&comma; future itineraries may be subject to change and so we are looking at how we phase our ships back into service&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>P&amp&semi;O Cruises also announced that Covid-19 restrictions have disrupted the final outfitting on its new ship Iona in Germany&comma; which is expected to delay her introduction to service&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">As a result of the continued impact of COVID-19&comma; we have made the decision to take the preventative measure of extending our suspension of all Cunard voyages an extra month until the 15th May&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here’s Cunard&&num;39&semi;s President Simon Palethorpe with an update on this evolving situation&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;9uOurNG2pc">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;9uOurNG2pc<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Cunard &lpar;&commat;cunardline&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;cunardline&sol;status&sol;1244565030026256385&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">March 30&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cunard president Simon Palethorpe said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Everyone in the Cunard team is aware of the need to support the management and containment of Covid-19 globally&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This includes protecting the health and safety of our guests and crew&period; It is therefore right we extend the pause in operations&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is too soon to know exactly how this situation will evolve&period; But I do know that we&comma; the Cunard team&comma; will commit all our resources&comma; energy and talent to weather this storm and come out stronger than ever for our guests&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have been sailing for 180 years and we look forward to many more&period; We will get through these tough times together and look forward to welcoming our guests back on board again soon&comma; when the time is right&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed0c6af0c0f">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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