What are air deviations and are they important?
First of all, a cruise line will always do their very best to get you to and from your port of embarkation on the most direct and convenient flights out of your airport gateway. If convenient flights are not available in the class of service in which they buy them from the airline, then the cruise line reserves the right to get you there any way they affordable can? When you book your airfare through the cruise line, you will receive your flight schedule 29 days prior to travel. It can be on any airline on any flight schedule that will affordably get you to your port of embarkation before the ship sails. What do we mean by this? It means that if you’re from Charlotte, NC and the the main carrier, USAirways, has a direct flight from Charlotte to San Juan you will more than likely get that flight. However, if the cruise line can’t get affordable space on that flight they could fly you to Detroit first on Northwest. This is not an exaggeration and is an example (a rare one, mind you. It’s
