Cruise Industry Defies New 100-Day ‘No Sail’ Order
Photo Credit: An idle Carnival ship sits in Long Beach, CA with the message "Sail Soon" Skift / Matt Heidkamp
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The cruise industry appears to be taking a contrarian stance to U.S. public health officials, a move that's baffling given the industry's need to rehabilitate its image.
The cruise industry received another blow on April 9, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended its initial No Sail Order a further 100 days, pushing the potential resumption of the cruise industry's operations until late July.
But the cruise industry seems to think this rule doesn't yet apply to them just yet. Instead, the three major lines are continuing to advertise their intent to resume cruising well before late July. Furthermore, the industry's trade group CLIA argued in a statement on Friday that the CDC is unfairly "singling out the cruise industry, which has been proactive in its escalation of health and sanitation protocols and was one of the first industries to announce a voluntary suspension of operations."
The CDC's No Sail Order — which was an extension of its initial order on March 14 — could end sooner than the 100-day timeline, but only if the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declares that Covid-19 is no longer a public health e
