Use cash and operating results together

This guide concerns flyLAT company credits and in-game operations. A healthy-looking revenue figure does not mean the airline can afford another aircraft today.

1. Open the correct company and period

Open Finances. Confirm the company and account context, then choose an available period such as 7D, 30D, Day, Month or Year.

  1. Read the current balance separately from the selected period's activity.
  2. Keep the same period when comparing figures.
  3. Review cash-flow information and recent trends rather than judging the business from one unusually good flight.

2. Investigate a change in cash

Compare financial activity with the operation that caused it: an aircraft purchase, maintenance check, facility purchase, cargo trade or employee payment. Open the source record where available and match the date, amount and aircraft, employee or cargo involved.

Several charges can belong to one operation. For example, maintenance may include a check, hangar service charge and public-slot rental. Do not assume multiple entries automatically mean a duplicate payment.

3. Make an expansion budget

  1. List the upfront purchase or deposit.
  2. Add delivery or repositioning, maintenance, facility and continuing payment commitments.
  3. Keep a reserve for operations already scheduled.
  4. Compare actual recent results with the new operation's expected costs.
  5. Expand in a size you can review and support if demand is weaker than expected.

Passenger revenue, aircraft utilisation and cash available are different measures. Use the route and flight records to explain performance instead of treating every increase in the balance as recurring profit.

4. Use finance apps when available

The Finance apps area includes Analyst Desk for airline intelligence and a Bank entry for treasury and lending. Bank access is restricted to eligible accounts. An unavailable app is not a reason to change account details or repeatedly retry.

If borrowing or aircraft financing is offered, review the agreement, amount due now, future payments and restrictions before confirming. Do not confuse a loan deposit with an outright aircraft price.

When a figure looks wrong

Check the airline, date range, operation status and whether the underlying flight or transaction has finished processing. Refresh once, collect the record identifiers and report the discrepancy if it remains unexplained. Do not repeat a purchase or payment solely to make a summary update.

Next: use the daily operations checklist to make this review routine.

Continue: Check an individual route's profitability.