U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention's " Framework for Conditional Sailing Order"—currently a stumbling block for big ship lines in their restart efforts as the CDC has yet to provide all details needed. But while Alaskan Dream Cruises will operate a full schedule of 2021 Alaska voyages this year, Zakary Kirkpatrick, the line's corporate director of marketing and PR, also expressed the line’s strong support for a PVSA exemption for larger ships as well as efforts to sway Canada to allow big-ship technical stops. The goal, he told reporters and travel advisors during a Friday briefing, is to avoid a devastating impact on Alaska's businesses, jobs and economy.