A cautionary tale about buying air travel through Choice Air or the cruise line.
Took a HAL cruise 2 years ago which started just about the time that hurricane hit the eastern U.S. coast. Some people on the cruise knew it was coming and tried to get to Italy earlier (airlines were generally being flexible in allowing people to standby for earlier flights, as in days earlier). As their tickets were totally-inflexible cruise tickets, they weren't allowed to fly earlier though seats were available if they had bought published fares. As a result, there were stranded in NY and could only catch up with the cruise 2-4 days later having to fly via RAK.