Fossil1
10th January 2009, 03:17 PM
As we all know RCI announced on the 5th December that fuel supplements were being dropped providing the price of West Texas Crude remained under a certain level, which it has. However they have also announced the following " Please note that ALL guests with existing bookings for sailings that depart on or after January 1, 2009, will now have the supplement automatically refunded to them in the form of an onboard credit during their sailing. Please be aware that this applies to both paid and unpaid bookings, the original holiday price therefore remains unchanged.
Please note that this decision has been made to facilitate a smoother reimbursement process for both our guests and trade partners."
If they didn't charge it in the first place they wouldn't have to refund it!!
This means that they are charging for something which ceased to exist after the 5th December. It further means that we are giving them a 3 month interest free loan which is paid back by way of goods that include their profit margin. In other words they take say for example $70 ( $10 pp per day for a week) which I know doesn't sound a lot but if you multiply it across RCI's 31 ships at 2,000 passengers per ship a week the actual cost amounts to about $4.34 Million a week. What do other people think?
Please note that this decision has been made to facilitate a smoother reimbursement process for both our guests and trade partners."
If they didn't charge it in the first place they wouldn't have to refund it!!
This means that they are charging for something which ceased to exist after the 5th December. It further means that we are giving them a 3 month interest free loan which is paid back by way of goods that include their profit margin. In other words they take say for example $70 ( $10 pp per day for a week) which I know doesn't sound a lot but if you multiply it across RCI's 31 ships at 2,000 passengers per ship a week the actual cost amounts to about $4.34 Million a week. What do other people think?