“We are talking about the stress and strain of long flights without the best of air ventilation, the impact on many elderly and frail passengers of hours without sleep, the expected lengthy — and according to news reports, often chaotic — waits at airports and immigration and health checkpoints, the uncertainty of whether flights would even be available or canceled after we are put off the ship, the effort of lugging carry-on bags for hours, then collecting multiple pieces of luggage (if indeed luggage can be taken) when we get home," passenger Georgina Cruz wrote to the Sun Sentinel.