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https://www.cruiseindustrynews.com/cruise-news/23989-mein-schiff-1-to-takeover-for-mein-schiff-6-in-canaries-for-tui-cruises.html

 

TUI Cruises is swapping ships in the Canary Islands, with the Mein Schiff 1 set to assume the Mein Schiff 6's program of cruises.

 

According to Schiff and Kreuzfahrten, the Mein Schiff 6 will return to Germany later this month for engine repairs.

 

The newer and larger Mein Schiff 1, will thus takeover for the Mein Schiff 6, starting with the Dec. 17 sailing.

 

The Mein Schiff 1 has capacity for 2,900 guests at full occupancy, compared to the Mein Schiff 6 at 2,534 guests. 

 

TUI has been operating at roughly 60 percent capacity with guests only able to book balcony accommodations.

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Yes, MS6 had one engine down for quite a while (somethings "broken" at the crank shaft).

 

Meanwhile... Yesterday evening the MS Europa 2 has left Santa Cruz de Tenerife for the first Canary Islands cruise. AIDAperla will follow tonight out of Gran Canaria.

 

On the down side... the Italian government issued a new law stopping all cruises which have Italian ports on their itinerary over the holidays. This basically affects Costa and MSC. This stopp is issued for Dec 21st til Jan 6th. Foreign flagged ships have to leave all Italian ports. This affects MSC (Malta/Pananma). But also other cruise lines which have ships in lay-up in the area (basically out of Civitavecchia or Naples). There were quite a few ships in the port of Civitavecchia - Princess, Costa, Carnival... - changing crew or getting supplies. The Norwegian Jade was a frequent visitor of the port of Naples. So all those ships have to spend those two week out at sea.

 

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MS1 left for her 21 day sailing from the Canary islands and according to AIS she's heading for Cape Verde - I assume for maybe a drive by (her original itinerary had 6 sea days)? The GTY rate for the next sailing (also 21 days) is not bad.

 

MS1 is scheduled to start Caribbean sailings in March.

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Yes, it´s just a "drive by" as Spain does only allow "local" cruises. They can´t even stop at the island of Madeira.

 

We´ve just returned from MS Europa 2 which we boarded in Tenerife and disembarked in Gran Canaria. We saw the MS6 coming into port in the morning and MS1 arriving in the evening of Dec 16th. Some crew of MS6 moved over to MS1 on Wednesday.

 

Although the Canary islands are becoming a risk area by tomorrow for Germans all three cruise lines (AIDA, TUI Cruises and Hapag-Lloyd) continue to sail.

 

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Not so good news from AIDA: Due to major IT problems AIDA had to cancel the next cruise of AIDAperla which was supposed to start tomorrow out of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and also the second cruise of AIDAmar which was supposed to start on Sunday - also out of Gran Canaria.

 

Passengers from AIDAperla report that there´s no internet onboard. AIDA states that they neither have phone nor email communication right now.

 

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Both ships have returned to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. AIDAperla should have started from there today. AIDAmar is in a day early. So obviously they shortened the cruise.

 

Other than TUI Cruises which only allows packages (cruise & flight) you can travel to the ship individually with AIDA and don´t have to buy their cruise & flight package. So all those who booked flights on their own now have a problem. Some did book B2B and now lost the first or second leg.

 

All ships of AIDA are affected. Crew of some other ships report that they don´t have internet too.

 

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21 hours ago, Biker19 said:

I seem to recall ships, including Q class, coming out of Papenberg stopping there to finish their fit out.

In contradisction to steamboat- you are right that Wilhelmshaven (Jade-Weser port) saw fitting works and final technical works before cruise line change of flags.  MS3 comes to my mind.

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TUI Group has announced that its demand for the summer 2021 holiday season is looking good, despite the “uncertainties,” and the group is prepared for a resumption of tourism.

 

Among the factors that contribute to the group’s preparedness are the development of its safety and hygiene concepts; the rapid vaccination progress in Great Britain, a market that’s important for the group; and “more rapid tests make an end to the standstill in tourism possible.”

 

“Our teams in the travel agencies, tour operators and TUI's hotel, airline and cruise companies are prepared for the new start in tourism in 2021. As expected, customers will book their summer holidays much later this year than in normal years. However, demand remains strong, people want to travel – this is shown by the already good number of bookings for the summer,” said Fritz Joussen, CEO of TUI Group.

 

According to a press release, 2.8 million bookings were made with the group for summer 2021, 56 percent of the bookings at the same time for summer 2019, with average prices 20 percent higher than for summer 2019.

 

The TUI Group’s revenue from cruising in Q1 of 2021 (October-December 2020) totaled 0.6 million euros (previous year: 238.4 million euros). Overall, the group sunk to a 698.6 million euro loss in the quarter (previous year's quarter not affected by the pandemic: -146.7 million euros).

 

TUI Group said it managed to cut the losses thanks to successful cost management.

TUI Group also reported agreeing a third Corona financing package with shareholders, banks, and the Economic Stabilization Fund. According to the press release, the package with a total volume of 1.8 billion euros was completed in the last week of January. It includes a rights issue, which will provide the group with funds of around 500 million euros.

 

TUI Reports Q1 Data, Demand for 2021 Holiday Season - Cruise Industry News | Cruise News

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