Celebrity Cruises

Celebrity on May 3, 2020, certified compliance with a federal protocol to allow crew members to return to their home countries. On May 21, 2020, as Filipino crew members remained on the ship, Maglana filed an initial version of the lawsuit, the opinion said. Several days later, Celebrity sent Maglana, Bugayong, and 200 other Filipino crewmembers to the Philippines on a charter flight.

"Despite having notice that COVID-19 was and/or likely was present aboard the vessels," the complaint alleges the company allowed its employees to attend crew parties aboard the ships, eat in buffet settings and mandated their participation in shipboard drills.

Passengers of Celebrity Cruises are pushing back after the cruise line raised its automatic gratuity charges with little notice, with some guests threatening to remove their payment of the fees altogether and tip crew members in cash instead.

Celebrity Cruises is facing online criticism for using AI-generated images in one of its brochures, touching on the larger debate about trust in travel marketing in addition to corporations' heavy and unnecessary reliance on AI.

Celebrity Cruises is using artificial intelligence to better market its cruises, resulting in more bookings and higher revenue.