Leases

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Our operating leases primarily relate to preferred berthing arrangements, real estate and shipboard equipment and are included within Operating lease right-of-use assets, and Long-term operating lease liabilities with the current portion of the liability included within Current portion of operating lease liabilities in our consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2019. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheet. We recognize lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Refer to Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, for further information on the adoption of ASC 842.

Our finance leases primarily relate to two ships, Silver Whisper and Silver Explorer, operated by Silversea Cruises. Finance leases are included within Property and equipment, net and Long-term debt, with the current portion of the debt reported within Current portion of debt, in our consolidated balance sheets. The finance lease for Silver Whisper will expire in 2022, subject to an option to purchase the ship, and the finance lease for Silver Explorer will expire in 2021, subject to an option to extend the lease for up to an additional six years.

For some of our real estate leases and berthing agreements, we do have the option to extend our current lease term. For those lease agreements with renewal options, the renewal periods for real estate leases range from one to 10 years and the renewal periods for berthing agreements range from one to 20 years. Generally, we do not include renewal options as a component of our present value calculation for berthing agreements. However, for certain real estate leases, we include them. Additionally, we do have a residual value guarantee associated with our lease of a terminal at PortMiami in Miami, Florida that approximates a percentage of cost of the asset as of the inception of the lease. We consider the possibility of incurring costs associated with the residual value guarantee to be remote.

As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our incremental borrowing rate in determining the present value of lease payments. We estimate our incremental borrowing rates based on LIBOR and U.S. Treasury note rates corresponding to lease terms increased by the Company’s credit risk spread and reduced by the estimated impact of collateral. We used the incremental borrowing rate as of the adoption date for operating leases that commenced prior to that date. In addition, we have lease agreements with lease and non-lease components, which are generally accounted for separately. However, for berthing agreements, we account for the lease and non-lease components as a single lease component.

Additionally, we bareboat charter to Pullmantur Holdings the vessels currently operated by its brands, which were retained by us following the sale of our 51% interest in Pullmantur Holdings in 2016. We account for the bareboat charters of these vessels as operating leases for which we are the lessor. The remaining payments and term of these leases are immaterial to our consolidated financial statements.

Supplemental balance sheet information for leases was as follows (in thousands):



	As of March 31, 2019
Lease assets:
Finance lease right-of-use assets, net:
Property and equipment, gross	$	246,682
Accumulated depreciation	(39,882		)
Property and equipment, net	206,800
Operating lease right-of-use assets	777,551
Total lease assets	$	984,351
Lease liabilities:
Finance lease liabilities:
Current portion of debt	$	33,068
Long-term debt	94,127
Total finance lease liabilities	127,195
Operating lease liabilities:
Current portion of operating lease liabilities	88,497
Long-term operating lease liabilities	708,371
Total operating lease liabilities	796,868
Total lease liabilities	$	924,063

The components of lease expense were as follows (in thousands):



	Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income (Loss) Classification	Quarter Ended March 31, 2019
Lease costs:
Operating lease costs	Commission, transportation and other	$	19,056
Operating lease costs	Other operating expenses	6,931
Operating lease costs	Marketing, selling and administrative expenses	5,679
Financial lease costs:
Amortization of right-of-use-assets	Depreciation and amortization expenses	3,195
Interest on lease liabilities	Interest expense, net of interest capitalized	596
Total lease costs		$	35,457

In addition, certain of our berth agreements include variable lease costs based on the number of passengers berthed. During the quarter ended March 31, 2019, we had $34.3 million of variable lease costs recorded within Commission, transportation and other in our consolidated statement of comprehensive income (loss).

Weighted average of the remaining lease terms and weighted average discount rates are as follows:



	As of March 31, 2019
Weighted average of the remaining lease term
Operating leases	10.8 years
Finance leases	3.6 years
Weighted average discount rate
Operating leases	4.6	%
Finance leases	3.8	%

Supplemental cash flow information related to leases is as follows (in thousands):



	Quarter Ended March 31, 2019
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Operating cash flows from operating leases	$	31,981
Operating cash flows from finance leases	$	596
Financing cash flows from finance leases	$	3,606

As of March 31, 2019, maturities related to lease liabilities were as follows (in thousands):



Year	Operating Leases			Finance Leases
Remainder of 2019	$	95,927		$	32,468
2020	126,959			36,334
2021	114,278			39,139
2022	107,885			16,097
2023	105,846			5,089
Thereafter	522,270			10,413
Total lease payments	1,073,165			139,540
Less: Interest	(276,297		)	(12,345		)
Present value of lease liabilities	$	796,868		$	127,195

Operating lease payments include $41.0 million related to options to extend lease terms that are reasonably certain of being exercised.

Under ASC 840, Leases, future minimum lease payments under noncancelable operating leases as of December 31, 2018 were as follows (in thousands):



Year
2019	$	67,682
2020	64,237
2021	56,142
2022	52,759
2023	52,522
Thereafter	383,974
	$	677,316

Leases