<p>Celebrity Cruises have announced that they will be removing their Australia and New Zealand sailings from their winter 2009/10 itineraries. Celebrity Cruises begun the sailings in 2007 but have now decided to operate Celebrity Millennium in Alaska which is a more popular destination and will ensure a fuller capacity on board.</p><p>Celebrity Millennium will take over from Celebrity Mercury, who will move to the Caribbean where it will be based out of Baltimore for future voyages. Celebrity Cruises final Australian cruise will be in April 2009.</p><p>For those customers that have made bookings for the Australia sailings after April 2009, Celebrity Cruises will be in touch imminently, with the option of cancelling the booking with a full refund or to re-book similar itineraries including Celebrity Millennium&rsquo;s final sailing &lsquo;down under&rsquo;.</p>