questions about figuring whats going on

[fluffybunny]

Hey everyone,
I am trying to figure out the best way to figure out what is going on here.  I have not changed anything as I have been busy the last day or 2 and I have noticed some strange results.  Here is my income page



I have not changed pricing and had no major maintenance and no delays or cancelations.  My RI is climbing as is my CI, this is a newish airline 3 planes been in business for 7 months.

My big question is why, or what should I look for, as the reason to why I went from + 30 k one week to 2 weeks later down 47k.

If anyone has any ideas or tips it would be greatly appreciated

[swiftus27]

your aircraft leases are starting to kick in.

I bet you are about 6 months into the game.   (I saw you said 7 after I posted this)

You prepay the first 4 months of your leases in advance.  So you don't have a payment for over 4 months.  Once they start to kick in, you can get into trouble.  

From week 38 to week 40, your income is down $50k and your lease payments are up $24k (This totals 74k).  Your net income dropped $77K... just "sore thumb" it

[fluffybunny]

swiftus,
thanks for that response, and yea that does make sense about those leases kicking in with the total.

Anything I should look or post on why my income is steadily going down?  I haven't really found an easy way with the graphs to figure out why they may be going down, or why the load factors are going down.  Any advice on the best way to figure that out?  My biggest confusion is all of the historical graphs are dates, and then all of the income graphs are in weeks.  Do I just pull up a rw calendar and try and go from there?  I have not seen a calendar in the game, maybe I am just missing it.

Thanks again for your help.

[JumboShrimp]

As far as the income side, there can be 2 reasons:
- weeks when B checks happen, which is the end of calendar month.  Sometimes it affects 2 weeks
- new competition on the routes you are flying

[alexgv1]

Week 40 was a B check week, as your revenue was less (due to planes not flying) and the maintenance costs were higher.

That is one more reason that you lost a bit more money that week.

For the rest I think it is as swiftus said, the lease payments are kicking in.

[swiftus27]

fluffy, please post  a screen shot of your routes scheduling screen.  Perhaps I can figure out if you are losing potential income. 

[romeozulu]

Maybe you had a lot of cancellations It could hurt your incomes... Check the delay screen!!