Airline Employee Cruise Discounts - Your home for airline employee cruise discounts, news and information.

Airline employee cruise discounts vary by cruise line. We list who qualifies on each of our cruise pages listed below. To book your airline employee cruise discount you need to contact an authorized travel agency who handles airline employee cruise discounts. There are only a handful of these "interline travel" agencies in the world and most of them are located in North America.

Most of these interline travel agencies will also charge you a booking fee of as much as $40 per person!!! When you call to check rates these agencies typically do not include this fee in the quote and only when you are booking your cruise and they include all of the taxes, fuel surcharges and fees does their booking fee get included in the price.

However there is one major interline travel agency that does not charge any booking fees. For that reason we recommend that you contact InterlineTravel.com as they do not charge airline employees any booking fees and work with all of the cruise lines, resorts and tour companies offering airline employee travel discounts. You can contact them online at InterlineTravel.com or by phone at 800 766-2911 or in the DFW Area call them at 817 481-8631.

The Cruise Lines constantly change the airline employee cruise discounts. Prices go up and they go down. Airline employee cruise rates are not available for every ship, every sailing date and every category. Last minute specials come out on a very regular basis and the really good deals go very quickly. The best way to stay abreast of these last minute deals is to sign up for the airline employee discount emails offered by various interline agencies. InterlineTravel.com has one which comes out at least twice a week and is free to sign up for. All of the airline employee cruise deals will then be sent to you so you can jump on any last minute deal that appeals to you.

Cruise Lines do not offer "bump protection" like many resorts do to airline employees. As a result you need to be at the port of embarkation on the day your cruise is scheduled to leave. There is no refund if you miss your cruise due to your inability to get on a flight when flying standby. One of the major issues when flying as a nonrev is weather. You need to stay aware of what the weather forcast is along your travel path on the day you plan to travel. A major storm in Atlanta or Chicago or Dallas/Ft Worth can play havoc with airline schedules across the nation. If in doubt we strongly advise that you go in a day or two ahead of time. It is better to spend a few dollars on an extra hotel night than to be standing at the pier and your ship has already sailed.

Also a hurricane can have a big effect your cruise. Ships will be rerouted to different ports or in different order so that they avoid hurricanes. If a hurricane is scheduled to hit the port you are departing from the cruise line may delay the ships arrival that morning until the next day. If in doubt check with your travel agent or the cruise line as to the status on your cruise ship.