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Holland America Line Enhances ‘Flight Ease’ Air Booking Program with More Options and Easier Navigation

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Seattle, Wash., Aug. 20, 2015 —Holland America Line added a new look and enhanced features to its air bookingprogram, Flight Ease, making it more user-friendly for travel professionals tonavigate, search and book flights.

In addition to the new design, the functionality of the site isnow more intuitive, allowing travel professionals to select departure and return flightsseparately, add a stopover flight segment, easily compare real-time flexibleand restricted fares, and review more detailed schedule displays.

“We’reconstantly communicating with our travel partners, and these Flight Easeenhancements are a result of conversations on how to improve the airreservation platform,” said EvaJenner, vice president of North America sales for Holland America Line.“Planning a cruise vacation from start to finish should be a seamless process,and Flight Ease ensures that our travel partners have the most advanced toolsto coordinate their clients’ air and cruise itineraries.”

Inaddition to the new look, the new and improved functionality includes:

-Theability to select departing and return flights independently.

-Improvedsearch filters to easily identify the best flight for clients based onpreferred airlines, fare type, number of stops, departure time, price andduration

-Easycomparison of flexible and restricted airfare options for the same flights

-Alogic-driven calendar to guide flight planning based on ship departure andarrival dates.

-Newlydesigned schedule displays detailing important information about type ofaircraft, connections and layover times.

-Improvednavigation allowing the travel professionals to move easily across the bookingflow from each step of the process including search, select departure, select return,summary and pay.

Available through Holland America Line’s robust Polar Onlinebooking process, Flight Ease features up-to-the-minute flight schedules thatonly include those flights that arrive and depart in time for the specificcruise booked; as well as competitive pricing and flight inventory frommultiple carriers. All flights booked through Flight Ease feature 24-hourassistance for questions and “Next Port Protection,” which means that in caseof airline delay or cancellation en route to a cruise, Holland America Linewill take care of any flight changes necessary to join the cruise at the nextavailable port of call.

With Flight Ease, travel professionals can easily and affordably selectfrom two competitive pricing options depending on their clients’travelneeds: Flexible Fares provide the greatest leeway for changes with no fees toadjust a flight schedule and airfare payment is due with the final cruisepayment.Similar to other low-fare tickets, Restricted Fares are generallya lower price, have cancellation fees and require full payment for the airreservation at the time of booking.

For more information on Flight Ease, visit the Travel AgentHeadquarters portal accessed via hollandamerica.com or call 1-877-SAIL-HAL (1-877-724-5425).

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About Holland AmericaLine [a division of Carnival Corporation and plc (NYSE: CCL and CUK)]

Holland America Line’s fleet of 15 ships offers more than 500cruises to 415 ports in 98 countries, territories or dependencies. One- to 110-day itineraries visit all sevencontinents and highlights include Antarctica, South America, Australia/New Zealandand Asia voyages; four annual Grand Voyages; and popular sailings to ports inthe Caribbean, Alaska, Mexico, Canada/New England, Europe and the Panama Canal.The line currently has anew 2,650-guest ship, ms Koningsdam, on order for delivery in April 2016from Fincantieri shipyard, as well as a second Pinnacle class ship due fordelivery in November 2018.

Fleetwide, the companyfeatures Signature of Excellence enhancements, a commitment totaling more than$500 million, that showcase the Culinary Arts Center presented by Food &Wine magazine — a state-of-the-art onboard show kitchen where more than 60celebrated guest chefs and culinary experts provide cooking demonstrations andclasses — Explorations Café powered by The New York Times, Digital Workshoppowered by Windows, teens-only activity areas and all-new stateroom amenitieshighlighted by flat-panel TVs and plush Euro-top Mariner’s Dream Beds.

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