New Celebrity Ship to Repatriate Ash-Stranded Travelers
As Celebrity Cruises prepares for the launch this weekend of its brand-new Celebrity Eclipse, the line is also stepping in to help stranded travelers make their way back home.
The cruise line has announced that the first leg of Eclipse’s launch celebrations — a two-night cruise scheduled to depart April 22 — has been canceled so the ship can instead repatriate British and Irish vacationers affected by airport closures and subsequent flight cancellations after Iceland’s Eyjafjallajoekull volcano erupted a cloud of ash into the atmosphere.
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