MIAMI -- Carnival
Corp. decided not to reposition the Regal Princess into its
U.K.-based Ocean Village fleet.
Instead, Carnival
said Aug. 4, one of its ships from the German-market AIDA fleet,
the AIDAblu, will be transferred to Ocean Village in spring
2007.
The 14-year-old
Regal Princess will stay with the Princess fleet.
Keeping the Regal
Princess with Princess will enable the brand to maximize its
earnings potential, Carnival said. In addition, since the AIDAblu
and Ocean Villages current vessel are sister ships, the AIDAblu
will only need minor modifications to make it part of the Ocean
Village product line.
Princess added that
the Regal Princess' winter 2006/2007 deployment will include 10- to
19-day Panama Canal cruises and four South America cruises -- two
that sail down the Amazon River and two that sail in the Andes and
Peru.
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