AmaWaterways is redefining the river cruise experience with AmaAir, making sailings across Europe and beyond easier for advisors to sell, and even easier for clients to enjoy.
For the first time, guests and travel advisors can book international flights directly through AmaWaterway’s Sydney-based reservations team.
AmaAir delivers a fully integrated, end-to-end luxury journey designed to complement the brand’s premium river cruise product.
This exceptional new cruise and fly initiative reflects the evolving expectations of today’s luxury travellers, where convenience, flexibility and seamless service matter as much as the destination itself.
Taking complexity out of river cruising
Supporting itineraries across Europe’s iconic waterways as well as Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, AmaAir has been designed to create a seamless, premium experience from departure through to return.
With air schedules perfectly aligned with cruise embarkation and disembarkation, AmaAir reduces the risks, stresses and manual coordination associated with long-haul travel for clients and advisors alike.
In fact, if plans change, the AmaWaterway’s dedicated team will work directly with airlines to adjust flights.
A truly seamless journey
With transfers between the airport and your clients’ ship or hotel included, AmaAir creates a consistent, premium experience.
Coordinated flight schedules, managed connections and seamless transfers give clients confidence in the overall travel experience, and in the AmaWaterways brand.
Cruise and fly adds tangible value without compromising premium positioning
Instead of discounting the core cruise product, AmaAir creates a platform for conversations around total journey value.
By packaging flights and transfers into the overall journey, advisors can present a more comprehensive travel solution, while also creating opportunities to enhance value through pre- and post-cruise stays, upgraded cabin categories and private transfer experiences.
The promotion makes luxury travel accessible to a broader range of travellers without compromising on the high-end, intimate river cruising experiences that AmaWaterways is known for.
Designed to help travel advisors sell with confidence
AmaWaterway’s integrated cruise and fly offering allows advisors to manage one coordinated booking instead of multiple suppliers, reducing complexity and streamlining the reservations process.
With fewer moving parts, advisors can minimise concerns around flight delays and misaligned schedules, a strong selling point for first-time river cruisers and repeat luxury travellers.
It enables consistency across destinations
Whether sailing the Danube, Rhine or the Mekong, guests can expect AmaWaterways’ signature high-touch service, immersive included shore experiences and thoughtfully curated itineraries. AmaAir further enhances the brand’s commitment to delivering a memorable river cruise experience.
Through partnerships with leading airlines, the program delivers seamless pre- and post-cruise travel arrangements. For clients seeking an even more exclusive experience, private transfers are also available upon request.
For advisors, it provides the reassurance of a consistent premium product across key long-haul destinations while allowing clients to focus on discovering remarkable places, not navigating the logistics of getting there.
Highlights across eligible cruise and fly itineraries include:
- Flavours of Portugal & Spain (7 nights) – from $4,974 per person including return international flights. Traverse the Duoro River’s sun-drenched valleys and terraced vineyards on this journey from Porto to the picturesque town of Vega de Terron.
- Melodies of the Danube (7 nights) – from $4,900 per person including return international flights. Soak in views of imperial landmarks, enchanting valleys and medieval fortresses on this sailing connecting Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Passau and Vilshofen.
- Charms of the Mekong (7 nights) – from $4,324 per person including return international flights. The vibrant cultures of Vietnam and Cambodia are on full display on this itinerary as daily life unfolds along the river and across thought-provoking shore excursions to historic sites and traditional workshops.
- Enchanting Rhine (7 nights) – from $4,750 per person including return international flights. Sailing from Basel, this journey takes guests through the fairytale landscapes and lesser-known cities of Germany and France before exploring the famous canals of Amsterdam.
- Paris and Normandy – Wine Cruise (7 nights) – from $6,474 per person including return international flights. Gourmands can sample the best wines, brews and countryside cuisine that France has to offer on this eight-day voyage through the elegant estates and vineyards of its Northern regions.
AmaWaterway’s cruise and fly promotion is available on selected 2026 and 2027 sailings across Europe and Asia for reservations made by 30 June. Access the full list of eligible itineraries here.
