AIDA Cruises
extends pause of its operation until end of August 2020
ROSTOCK, Germany, July 2, 2020 -- Given the gradual easing in
intra-European travel, AIDA Cruises believes it will resume its
cruise operation later this summer. However, the conditions for
safe travel do not yet exist in many destinations worldwide.
Since it is of great importance to AIDA Cruises to ensure all
guests have confidence in planning their vacations, the company
today announced it has extended its pause of operations until
August 31, 2020. This does not apply
to individual departures from AIDAprima, AIDAperla and
AIDAdiva.
AIDA Cruises is in close and constant contact with all of the
relevant authorities discussing the brand's interest in restarting
cruise vacations, when the time is right, under adapted conditions
and in full compliance with all sanitization and hygiene standards
and protocols for physical distancing.
All guests whose trip cannot take place as originally scheduled
will be informed immediately. Bookings are processed
chronologically according to the departure date. The company
publishes all updated information on the current pause of operation
at www.aida.de/reisehinweis.
AIDA very much wants guests to enjoy their long-awaited AIDA
holidays at a later date. To this end, AIDA will reimburse all
guests whose cruises will not take place in August 2020 for the payments previously made to
AIDA in the form of a travel credit. AIDA appreciates guests for
their confidence by offering them a bonus of 10% on top of the
payment already made.
In order to support travel agencies in these challenging times,
AIDA will pay out a liquidity advance. This is 10% of the credit
value and will be transferred to the sales partner as soon as AIDA
has issued the travel credit for the joint customer.
Guests can find detailed information on the travel credit on
www.aida.de and sales partners on the AIDA Expinet website.
CONTACT: Communication: Hansjörg Kunze, Vice President
Communication & Sustainability, Tel.: +49 (0) 381 / 444-80 20,
Fax: + 49 (0) 381 / 444-80 25, presse@aida.de