{"id":6284,"date":"2022-01-25T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=6284"},"modified":"2022-02-11T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T16:40:00","slug":"statement-by-commissioner-louis-e-sola-regarding-future-bookings-on-crystal-cruises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/statement-by-commissioner-louis-e-sola-regarding-future-bookings-on-crystal-cruises\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Commissioner Louis E. Sola Regarding Future Bookings on Crystal Cruises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of\u00a0certain recently reported events, passengers with future bookings on Crystal Cruises may be concerned about their ability to receive refunds for future tickets they have purchased.\u202f Customers who bought a voyage embarking from a U.S. port have consumer protection safeguards in place by the FMC.\u202f\u202f Crystal Cruises has sufficient funds to provide refunds for qualifying individuals.\u202f While consumers might not be able to recover all costs associated with taking a cruise, such as airfare and hotel expenses, they can take comfort that they are protected from losing the money for their cruise ticket as the law requires.\u202f From my Fact Finding 30 investigation, it is unfortunate to see any economic driver in the cruise industry have a negative effect on the ports, crew members, employees, and vendors.\u202f Fortunately, thanks to the hard work of the FMC staff and the foresight of my fellow\u00a0Commissioners in the implementation of effective Consumer Protection Rules and policies, consumers should be reasonably protected.<\/p>\n<p><em>Louis E. Sola\u00a0is a\u00a0Commissioner with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission. The thoughts and comments expressed here are\u00a0his\u00a0own and do not necessarily represent the position of the Commission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of\u00a0certain recently reported events, passengers with future bookings on Crystal Cruises may be concerned about their ability to receive refunds for future tickets they have purchased.\u202f Customers who bought a voyage embarking from a U.S. port have consumer protection safeguards in place by the FMC.\u202f\u202f Crystal Cruises has... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"\/statement-by-commissioner-louis-e-sola-regarding-future-bookings-on-crystal-cruises\/\">Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6285,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6284\/revisions\/6285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fmc.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}