MSC Cruises has partnered with Norwegian Airlines to offer passengers winter-time sailings. The partnership will make the ship available for passengers in January, when other cruise lines are mostly closed down due to weather conditions.
MSC Cruises has partnered with Saudi Arabian Airlines to offer winter sailings. The company is offering discounted rates for passengers who book their trip before the end of November.
MSC Cruises has disclosed terms of a deal with SAUDIA, Saudi Arabia’s official airline, for 36,800 tickets from Europe and North America to support MSC’s new Red Sea winter program. This winter, the cooperation is projected to deliver roughly 20,000 visitors to Saudi Arabia.
MSC customers may purchase a “Fly & Cruise” package that will take them from a variety of major international airports to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they will board MSC Bellissima for seven-night voyages from November to March.
(MSC Cruises provided this image.)
Following the signing of a five-year preferential berthing agreement with Cruise Saudi, the cruise line started sailing from Jeddah in July.
MSC Cruises CEO Gianni Onorato said, “We are proud to partner with SAUDIA, the Kingdom’s national flag carrier, and work toward the same common objectives in support of the continued development of tourism in Saudi Arabia by bringing many thousands of international guests to discover this remarkable country, with more to come in future sailing seasons.”
“We are able to make our new cruise offering even more accessible to tourists from Europe and North America, and give best-in-class experiences, thanks to this wide flying program.”
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Gianni Onorato, Ibrahim Al-Omar, Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines Corporation, and Fawaz Farooqui, Managing Director of Cruise Saudi, signed the agreement in person today at the Saudi Airlines headquarters in Jeddah.
Italy, Germany, France, and Spain are the major markets for MSC Cruises’ European customers sailing from Saudi Arabia this winter.
The seven-night cruises leave Jeddah at 11 p.m. every Saturday night, and SAUDIA has changed its travel schedule to include Friday night flights from Milan, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, and Madrid with Saturday morning arrivals.
The MSC Bellissima docked at Jeddah (Photo courtesy of MSC Cruises)
The airline has also changed its flight schedule to make it simpler for passengers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Austria to board the ship.
For Saturday morning trips home, a similar selection of well scheduled return flights is available.
The seven-night Saudi Arabia and Red Sea cruises aboard MSC Bellissima depart from Jeddah in the winter of 2021-2022, traveling to King Abdullah Economic City and Yanbu, then Aqaba in Jordan for tours to Petra.
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The “cruise saudi website” is a company that has partnered with the MSC cruise line. The company will offer winter sailings to destinations in Europe, Asia, and North America.
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