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From the Cruise One Mobile Studios aboard the Carnival Fascination here in Jacksonville, Florida, you're listening to Cruise Radio.

I'm Matt Baskford.

And I'm Doug Parker. Follow us on Twitter at Cruise Radio and become a fan of our Facebook page at Facebook.com slash cruise radio. And since you're becoming a fan of things on Facebook, we're trying to keep the cruise terminal here in Jacksonville, and we have a page dedicated to that. Just go to Facebook.com and search Keep Cruise in Jacksonville. It's one of the many reasons. We are, in fact, aboard the carnival fascination, which does sail out of Jacksonville. Good show today. We'll be talking to the chef, also the hotel director, and the assistant cruise director. And is this right? What, squishy? That's his name, Squishy. Squishy, interesting. First, Stuart Sheron, the Cruise Guide, joins us, as always. Welcome, Stuart. Hey, Matt, and I know Doug's hiding back there

somewhere. Hey, man. Lots of different stuff to cover today. First, Delta changes. It's frequent flyer

program, I guess traditionally. They've actually charged the passengers for redeeming their frequent

flyer miles. Is that right? Yeah, actually, what's very interesting is with the dawn of the internet, before the internet, actually, when you wanted to redeem your miles, you had to wait

for a certificate to arrive in the mail. And, you know, there was a little bit of people involved.

Now everything is computerized that even though that with the convenience of the internet,

they still charged you money. In fact, they charged

your big money, sometimes up to the tune of $75 per ticket to issue tickets using your own

air miles. But thankfully, Delta got smart, and effectively, as of June, they've essentially

will not be charging booking fees for award ticket redemptions, even for the last-minute

bookings, which could have been up to like $75 per person.

That's great.

And then, you see, this is important for people going on cruises because less than 30% of people

that go on cruises that require air use the air from the cruise lines.

They do it themselves.

They use their frequent flyer points.

So, you know, if you're a family of four and, you know, you're saving $150 or $300 in ticketing

in these certificate fees, it adds up.

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