FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, record photo, the Queen Mary 2 prepares to depart the Red Hook Terminal, bound for Southampton, England, successful the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Manhattan skyline is astatine left. Cunard Line is pushing backmost the instrumentality of the Queen Mary 2, which has already been idled for 18 months due to the fact that of the pandemic. Cunard said Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, it is canceling the ship's archetypal 4 scheduled cruises, which included 2 trips crossed the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018, record photo, the Queen Mary 2 prepares to depart the Red Hook Terminal, bound for Southampton, England, successful the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Manhattan skyline is astatine left. Cunard Line is pushing backmost the instrumentality of the Queen Mary 2, which has already been idled for 18 months due to the fact that of the pandemic. Cunard said Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, it is canceling the ship's archetypal 4 scheduled cruises, which included 2 trips crossed the Atlantic. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File) (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – Cunard Line canceled the archetypal 4 scheduled trips of the Queen Mary 2 successful much than a year, saying Thursday that aft the agelong layoff during the pandemic it wants the ship’s adjacent cruises “to beryllium person to home.”

The 4 canceled sailings had been scheduled betwixt Nov. 14 and Dec. 10. They included a travel from Cunard's basal successful Southampton, England, to New York, and a transatlantic instrumentality voyage.

Instead, the ship’s instrumentality volition beryllium delayed until Nov. 28, and its archetypal 2 sailings volition beryllium abbreviated circular trips from Southampton.

Cunard said the vessel volition get successful New York connected Dec. 20 and marque its archetypal sailing from U.S. waters 2 days later, going to the Caribbean. The two-day interruption is to let for inspections nether “the latest regulatory requirements,” said Cunard, which is owned by Miami-based Carnival Corp.

The cancellations are the latest successful a bid of fits and starts for the cruise industry, which has been devastated by the pandemic and struggled to conscionable wellness conditions acceptable by the U.S. wellness authorities.

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