Cunard really did not handle this situation with any class.I really did believe the propaganda that the Cunard Line announced that there were no plans for the QE2 to be retired or sold,that Cunard had planned to keep the QE2 sailing past 2010 until 2015 or 2016.Just earlier this year when Cunard announced that the QE2 would do a tandem crossing with that phony Queen,Queen Victoria and that both ships would join the QM2 in New York on January 13,2008 there were would be in the first time in Cunard's history 3 Queens in the same port on the same day.Well Cunard's time as a 3 Queen line would only be less than a year since the QE2 will be doing her final voyage on November 11,2008.One question I really want to ask is was the Queen Victoria really necessary? If Carnival Corp. which is the parent company which owns the Cunard Line thinks that Cunard could only be profitable as a 2 ship line they could have just have left Cunard the way it is now with the QM2 and the QE2,keep the QE2 sailing until 2015 or 2016 and the year before her retirement announce the final season of QE2 voyages and then give her a proper retirement and replace her with another ship.That would have been the proper way for Carnival/Cunard to handle the final years of the QE2'service life.I do very much understand the need for Carnival Corp. to build the QM2 when Carnival Corp. first bought Cunard 9 years ago.The QE2 was an aging 30 year old ocean liner and Carnival Corp had to invest in Cunard with the construction of the QM2 to keep Cunard profitable.But it is a different story with the phony Queen,Queen Victoria.She is not a true ocean liner,she is just a cheap cruise ship and she is not really needed.The way the Carnival Corp. handled the QE2 situation was like drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa.