"delta" wrote
>I never knew they could do this. I have to schedule my vacation ahead
> of time. It would take way more than $500 credit for me to go away
> without a HUGE fight. This is not like being bumped off a plane and
> you are late by three or four hours. I cannot believe this has been
> allowed ot go on and it has not been publicized more than it has.
Read the part again that said that people were "bumped" off VOLUNTARILY.
Princess basically offered them a better deal on another sailing and
sweetened the pot enough that they were willing to accept that voluntarily.
Some of these deals can be VERY attractive to people whose schedules are
flexible.
FWIW, I have been selling cruises for 13 years and have never had a single
customer "bumped" off a sailing. I have had a lot of them take advantage of
upgrade/cash back offers to change sailings...... and even more of them
refuse these offers for the same reasons you would.
There was an instance last summer where Carnival had over-booked a couple of
sailings out of Baltimore and they did bump some passengers, but on major
cruise lines, that is the only time I can ever recall that happening.
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