As the cruise industry is constantly struggling with COVID-19 outages, Carnival (NYSE: CCL) (NYSE: CUK) announced this morning that it will cancel more cruises, including some until 2023. The company also changed some of the winter routes that are currently still technically applicable, which lowered its stock value during the morning trading.
The far-reaching cancellations were for trips to San Diego aboard the Carnival Miracle, the majority of which were turned down, including those booked until April 2023. The voyages are now canceled until further notice, except for seven Hawaiian voyages. However, even this was moved to Long Beach, California, rather than the originally planned departure in San Diego.
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Other carnival ships (the Magic, Paradise and Valor) will only sail again in November this year. The Carnival Radiance will also remain idle until November, when it will be relocated to Long Beach, which will share it with the Carnival Miracle.
Although the reform necessarily involves numerous cancellations of the bookings, Carnival is also adding some short cruises for the winter of 2021. From November 2021, it will offer 4- and 5-day packages from Long Beach to Mexico aboard the Carnival Miracle, between Hawaiian cruises.
Just a few days ago, all the major shipping companies agreed to postpone the cruises until May 1st at the earliest. The news comes as new COVID-19 infections are said to be declining in 48 out of 50 states as vaccines gradually move the population to herd immunity.