MIAMI -- CruisePath Network, which filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy
protection last week and was slated to cease operations May 5, is
still temporarily up and running with its online cruise-booking
platforms.
Alan Goldberg, the trustee assigned to the case in U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Florida in Miami, said
Monday that CruisePath Network will stay operational for 30
days.
Its assets, including the company's technology platform, will be
up for sale and the company will receive no new funding, Goldberg
said.
Dan Bohan, chief operating officer of Omega World Travel in
Fairfax, Va., said that a judge hearing the matter decided to delay
CruisePath's shutdown after hearing Omega's appeal to keep
CruisePath in business temporarily.
Omega, which uses CruisePath technology on agency desktops and
on its Cruise.com, sought a shutdown delay to give agencies time to
find another cruise-booking solution.
Omega is developing one and plans to market it to other
agencies, Bohan said.
Meanwhile, Sabre and Worldspan said Wednesday that agencies
using underlying CruisePath technology (Worldspan's rendition is
called Worldspan Go Cruise, for instance) may continue to do so
until further notice.