Costa Cruises has canceled sailings for Costa Fortuna from April 2023 to April 2024, and is within the technique of notifying booked company of the cancelations and options for his or her deliberate sailings. No plans have but been introduced for the ship throughout that point interval.
Costa Fortuna Sailings Canceled
In a letter despatched to booked company, Costa Cruises has introduced the cancelation of a yr’s price of sailings for Costa Fortuna, when the ship was slated to be homeported from Istanbul, Turkey. Now, sailings from April 2023 to April 2024 have been canceled.
The canceled sailings had initially been deliberate for Costa Venezia, earlier than that ship was designated as a part of the “Costa by Carnival” program with plans to transfer beneath the operation of Carnival Cruise Line.
The impacted sailings have been Mediterranean itineraries, all roundtrip from Istanbul, Turkey. The cruises ranged from 7-14 days, with numerous ports of name in Turkey and Greece, giving company the chance to extra totally discover the japanese Mediterranean and Aegean Sea, a area wealthy in historical past, artwork, and tradition.
When it was introduced in June 2022 that Costa Venezia could be transferring to the Carnival Cruise Line fleet, that ship’s Mediterranean itineraries have been quietly shifted to Costa Fortuna.
Costa Fortuna is among the smallest ships within the Costa Cruises fleet, weighing 102,700 gross tons and capable of welcome 2,702 company at double occupancy, and as much as 3,470 passengers when totally booked. The Fortuna/Triumph-class ship can also be the oldest Costa Cruises ship, having entered service with the road in 2003.
Why So Many Cancelations?
Few particulars have but been made clear about why such numerous sailings have been summarily canceled six months earlier than their crusing dates start, however there may very well be a number of causes.
It could be that there was not sufficient curiosity in crusing within the japanese Mediterranean on these itineraries or for Istanbul as a departure port, and subsequently low reserving numbers prompted a change with the ship prone to be repositioned to a extra well-liked, and subsequently extra worthwhile, area.
Additionally it is attainable that native laws and attainable restrictions on marine visitors, cruise operators, or vacationer visits may very well be making coordinating the cruises too difficult and subsequently much less fascinating. Port taxes and charges may play a task in this sort of resolution.
Costa Cruises continues to be providing japanese Mediterranean sailings in the course of the summer time and early fall of 2023 aboard Costa Deliziosa from Venice and Costa Pacifica from Bari however fewer sailings can be found within the area later within the yr, and none in any respect now deliberate in early 2024.
Future Deployment Plans
No formal resolution has but been made about future plans or itineraries for Costa Fortuna, however the cruise line is prone to make an announcement quickly.
It’s attainable the ship will merely be repositioned to a unique area, or could proceed homeporting from within the central and western Mediterranean, the place the ship is presently providing shorter 3-4 night time sailings from Seville, Barcelona, and Marseilles.
One other chance is the ship could also be transferred to the Costa by Carnival program in 2023 or 2024, if that program proves profitable with the transfers of Costa Venezia and Costa Firenze respectively in these years.
Costa Fortuna may also be transferred fully to Carnival Cruise Line as has been carried out with the former Costa Luminosa – now Carnival Luminosa – or the older ship may very well be scrapped fully.
For now, Costa Fortuna continues to be deliberate to spend the winter season crusing in South America, providing 8-night itineraries from Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, Brazil in addition to just a few sailings from Montevideo, Uruguay via March 2023.
