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Carnival reassures passengers over supplements
Carnival UK chief executive David Dingle has ruled out fuel supplements in the UK as the company announced it was levying the charges on US customers.
The charge, of US$5 per person, per day, comes in response to rising fuel prices and is effective on all US bookings for voyages departing on or after February 1, 2008.
In the past, Carnival has levied fuel supplements in the UK and its subsidiaries, Costa and Aida in Germany, have introduced them in Europe.
But Dingle assured UK passengers: “It is not something we plan to do in the UK.”
The newly-introduced levy for US passengers will not exceed $70 per person, per voyage and applies to the Carnival, Costa, Cunard, Holland America Line, Princess and Seabourn brands.
Carnival chief executive Mickey Arison said the price the company pays for fuel has increased 140 per cent over the past three years, with a 50 per cent increase occurring in just the past seven months.
“We had hoped to avoid a supplement, but with the price of oil approaching $100 a barrel, this is no longer possible,” he said.
Jeremy Skidmore
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