Originally Posted by
oldart
If the delay was with a fly/cruise holiday, then you would have to cancel the holiday, probably no options to catch up with a ship forty hours later.
Which it wasn't. Although theres also the possibility of booking such passengers on to a flight to the next nearest airport on the cruises port of call. Either on their own airline or other... It has happened before believe it or not. Holiday companies and airlines don't purposely want their aircraft to breakdown and be unsafe to fly so to annoy their customers. They do practically everything in their day to day power to reduce any disruption when it does happen. But when they've run out of any realistic options, unfortunately someone's going to have to bare the brunt of it on a the very rare occasion in the grand scheme of things.