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My name is Doug Parker.

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

A review of Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas this week.

And check it in with staff writer Richard Sims, who is in Bermuda on Norwegian Escape. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug. How are you? Good. I know we have a little bit of connectivity issue. so we're going to jump right to the news here.

First up, NCL shared some good financial news.

Good might be almost an understatement.

Norwegian cruise line holdings reported third quarter earnings of $345.9 million.

Now, just for comparison, that's the third quarter numbers.

In the second quarter,

they reported 8.61 million earnings. So, as you can see, 8.86.1 million up to 345 million. That's a nice

little increase. The total revenue was 2.5 billion. That's billion with a beat for the third

quarter, which definitely beat expectations. And they also reported that occupancy in the third

quarter was up to 106%. Again, we've talked about this before, but for newer listeners,

that means because people

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