Carnival cancels all cruises out of New Orleans this summer; see its proposed plan

Carnival has canceled all of its New Orleans cruises through the summer due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Monday.

However, it plans to begin sailing Aug. 1 out of Miami, Port Canaveral and Galveston. The news comes a few days after the U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure announced an investigation into Carnival’s response to the outbreak.

Carnival did not say when it plans to resume sailing from New Orleans.

“We are taking a measured approach, focusing our return to service on a select number of homeports where we have more significant operations that are easily accessible by car for the majority of our guests,” Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen said Monday.

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