Tagged: AIDA Cruises

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), the Japanese shipbuilder that is constructing two 124,500 gross ton ships for AIDA Cruises, has written to sub-contractors and suppliers to observe agreed delivery schedule despite a second six month delay in the completion of AIDAprima, the first ship.

AIDA Cruises has just announced the cancelling of its three planned calls to Klaksvik this summer in response to the new Faroese Pilot Whaling Act. (cruisebusiness.com)

Felix Eichhorn (35), previously Senior Vice President of Sales, Yield Management & Flight Operation for AIDA Cruises has been appointed new President of AIDA Cruises, effective September 1, 2015. (more…)

AIDAstella, previously planned in the Western Mediterranean, will take over the voyages originally planned with AIDAprima from Dubai and Abu Dhabi, between November 2015 and March 2016.

On July 24, AIDA Cruises presented its current Sustainability Report “AIDA Cares 2015” to the public in Hamburg. It is based on the internationally recognized standard of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). (more…)

The first voyage of the ship is on schedule, leaving Japan in October and heading to Dubai, sailing Oct. 1. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

AIDA Cruises hosted what it called an international art event aboard the AIDAsol last Sunday with six artists presenting their works onboard and speaking about their creations. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

With the new AIDA Cruises hiking tours, cruise passengers who enjoy hiking can explore the most beautiful places in the world and a whole new way to sightsee at selected ports. (more…)

For social media, passengers can access popular sites for 4 euro per day, or 19 euros per week, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The German cruise market, which produced about 1.8 million passengers last year, should reach the 2.0 million mark in 2016, said Michael Ungerer, president of AIDA Cruises. (cruisebusiness.com)

With the birthday of the cruise ship AIDAcara on June 7, 2015, AIDA Cruises is heralding the 20th year of its company history. (cruisebusiness.com)

After its scheduled visit to Blohm + Voss from April 21 to May 4, the AIDAdiva emerged with a number of new passenger features as well as a scrubber installation. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The AIDAprima has a received the brand’s trademark smile at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki. Hull work began at the end of last month, according to AIDA Cruises. The smile is painted individually on each ship by Rostock artist Feliks Buttner. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

AIDA Cruises, the German contemporary market unit in the Carnival Corp & plc group, says it has installed an energy monitoring and management system on board its vessels. (more…)

AIDA Cruises has released its brochure of cruises through April 2017, featuring more than 200 ports in 63 countries, and ranging from three to 51 days. (cruiseindustrynews.com)

The new AIDAprima will have an ice rink when she launches later this year. (cruiseindustrynews.com)