Pride of Aloha finishes Hawaii Sailings
May 1/08 the Norwegian Cruise Line’s Pride of Aloha finished its Hawaii Island service and headed for its new homeport Miami/Florida. She will be renamed the Norwegian Sky and cruise the Bahamas beginning this summer. Pride of Aloha’s departure leaves just one NCL ship, the Pride of America, in Hawaii’s inter-island cruise market. NCL’s Pride of Hawaii left in February 2008 and was re-flagged to the Bahamas as the Norwegian Jade to enter the European Market. According to an NCL statement, the dramatic move has come as the result of “substantial 2006 losses, reported in February of this year … caused by downward pricing pressure in the Hawaii market following the addition of Pride of Hawaii to the fleet last summer, and the steep increase in the amount of foreign-flagged competition entering the Hawai’i market from the West Coast.”
