Any signs of bankrupcy for any major cruiselines?

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2 hours ago, Hlitner said:

Whether we have false negatives or false positives missed my point.  What we do have, with no debate, is that the Alaskan cruise had to be ended, the ship returns to Juneau, and all the souls aboard are put into quarantine in local hotels.  The reliability of any test is not 100% but that also means there is no way to cruise with any degree of reliability.   I have posted elsewhere that trying to adopt protocols that rely on temperatures and testing does not necessarily work.  We cannot ignore that nearly every attempt to restart cruising (in both Europe and Alaska) have failed!  

 

Getting back to the Alaskan cruise, whether it ultimately turns out that any of those folks have COVID or not, there cruise vacation has been prematurely ended, those poor folks are now quarantined (not sure who is paying the bill) and their vacation has been ruined!   We have a cruise scheduled in early December which may or may not happen.  But that cruise is scheduled to end on Dec 17.  While we might be willing to take a risk on that cruise we are not willing to risk missing out on Christmas/New Years with our DD and Grandchildren because we may be put into quarantine (whether justified or not).   At this time anyone who takes a cruise must be prepared to spend several additional weeks being quarantined and I am not sure that will work for most folks' schedules.

 

Hank

I actually did get your point. My point was that with the possibility of a false positive, a cruise could be ruined even if no one actually had the virus.

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2 hours ago, Hlitner said:

At this time anyone who takes a cruise must be prepared to spend several additional weeks being quarantined and I am not sure that will work for most folks' schedules.

 

Hank

^^^ THIS^^^  is the key measure of when cruising will rebound.  As long as there is a non-negligible possibility of cruises ending in quarantine, many (including me) will abstain.