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Stelios outlines cruise expansion
EasyCruise is to sail in the Caribbean this winter and plans to add a second ship for eastern Mediterranean cruises next summer.
The budget cruise concept was launched by easyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou with a single ship offering an itinerary along the French and Italian rivieras.
The vessel easyCruiseOne will move to either Barbados or Antigua from November to run sailings to St Lucia, Martinique, the St Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada until next April.
A second ship is planned for summer 2006 operating from Athens to Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Heraklion, Hania and Milos.
The company is also considering basing a vessel in the Arabian Gulf for winter 2006-07, possibly based in Dubai.
The company says the average age of passengers in its first season in the Med is 33 – more than 20 years younger than in the traditional cruise industry.
Haji-Ioannou said: “I am very pleased that easyCruise has attracted a younger crowd. In the future we intend to continue growing this younger cruise market and to offer them a wider choice of destinations in each new season.”
Report by Phil Davies
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