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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Carnival Vista today on a six-night Caribbean review at a Port Canaveral. Plus, as always, staff writer Richard Sims on deck with Cruise News, jumping right to him now. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug, we're on the same continent finally. You know, I have to ask you, the last time I talked to you, you were getting ready to fly home. Did you get caught up in all that craziness, craziness with the IT disaster? Oh my gosh, it was. Yeah. So I was in, uh, where was I Tokyo? I was in Shanghai on the jetway and bored in the flight. And I started getting all these crazy alerts. So I get to my seat,

pilot comes on and, you know, it's one of those from the flight deck, blah, blah, blah, blah,

you barely understand him, right? But he was like a little bit of a situation happening in the

US with an IT issue with a third party server or whatever he said. We're going to be sitting here

for a little while. So a little while

turned into two hours. We were sitting there because remember I was like 12 hours ahead over in

Shanghai. After the two hours, he came on and said, okay, we got clearance to go, airspace and the

ground stop was lifted. I guess he was saying something along those lines. And then we went 14 hours.

So I was on the plane for 16 hours.

It was two hours sitting there waiting because the pilot was explaining that because we

boarded the aircraft in China in Shanghai, if we got off of it, we were technically going from

China to America, even though we weren't really in America. So if we were to go and if we were

to debark again, we would have to

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