Re: NCLA Pulls More Hawaii Service!


"Ray Goldenberg" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

NCL Corporation Announces Adjustments to Hawai'i Fleet
Company announces Pride of America's deployment through 2010 Pride of
Aloha to leave the fleet in May

Honolulu - Feb 11, 2008
NCL Corporation ("NCL") today announced the withdrawal of Pride of
Aloha from the Hawai'i market effective May 11, 2008. The ship is
being transferred to Star Cruises and will be reflagged and deployed
in Asia in the summer of 2008.
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Commenting on the Pride of Aloha withdrawal, NCL's President and CEO
Colin Veitch said: "Our Hawai'i business has been extraordinarily
difficult, and although we have progressively established a stable
operation, delivering a good product in a great destination, the
overall price level in the market has been driven down, to a
significant degree, by an unprecedented expansion of capacity from
low-cost foreign flag ships based on the west coast operating domestic
Hawai'i itineraries that the Customs Service has indicated are legally
the preserve of U.S. flag ships.

Please allow me to translate this into real-speak:

Commenting on the Pride of Aloha withdrawal, NCL's President and CEO Colin Veitch said: OK, so we had good intentions. We paid off various politicians and bought the USS United States as a jingoistic sweetener, and purchased ourselves legislation that awarded us the only legal monopoly on Hawaii itineraries. In spite of having NO competition, our management team was so inept that we were unable to make a profit. Of course, we can blame this all on the fact that some ships do a few seasonal repositioning cruises and tried to get the screws put to them by getting our political lackeys to expand the scope of the outdated Passenger Services Act. Now, in an act of desperation, we are pulling the second of three ships from this market. This decision was made by our new management team which includes people who ran NCL into the ground back in the mid-90's. We feel the new management team has enough experience that we are willing to let them take another whack at the piñata that NCL has become.
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Bottom line is that NCL has a monopoly on 7 day Hawaii cruises. That is like being the only vendor selling ice-water in Hell... and they just couldn't get the job done.


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