Exactly - the lease payments on a $2B ship start to add up!
The billionaires won't buy cruise ships because they are too large,so scraping is common. The lines who get new ships don't have passengers and itineraries for them.
Besides spending the Billions saved in profits, the Cruise Lines are going through that money and also the borrowed Billions of dollars from their creditors- and no income in sight.
Not to mention they have our CDC, Press, and many politicians aligned against them.-Tom