Finance

The Finance page shows you everything you need to know about the financial side of your airline. To go to the Finance page, click Finance on the navigation bar. Basically, the Finance page can be split into two sections: revenue and expense. Note the page is formatted into two sections by giving you a total revenue and, separately, total costs.

Also, the left and right side of the page show different data. On the left, you'll find your daily (if possible) income and costs, such as ticket prices and staff expense, to date. That means the total revenue and costs accumulated in this month. The right side shows your Projected Totals. This means the amount of money that has gone in or has been spent at the end of the month, providing none of the amounts change.

Revenues

All the money you make, mostly from ticket prices but potentially also from outgoing leases, goes under the revenue section.

On top, you'll see the ticket revenue. This is the money coming in from ticket sales. Ticket Sales make up your Daily Operating Profit, or DOP. The lease revenue shows the money you make from outgoing leases. Lease fees are transferred at the end of each month, so keep that in mind when spending money near the 24th of each game month. If your bank balance is low, you may end up in the red because you didn't have enough spare cash to cover all end-of-month expenses.

Ticket revenue will be transferred to your account at the end of each day. The DOP shows you exactly how much money you will recieve at the end of that day.

Below that, in the gray bar, you'll see the total expenses noted.

Costs

Your costs consist of fuel and staff costs (paid for each game day), and gate rental, maintenance and leasing fees (paid for at the end of each month).

Fuel and Staff Costs

Fuel and staff costs are factored in already when you create a route, but they are listed here again for your convenience. For each flight, you have to pay for the used fuel, and naturally, you'll have to pay the pilot's salary. Cabin Attendants don't recieve any salary yet, for now, they're volunteers. These costs are withdrawn from your account each day. In the DOP, these costs have already been factored in, so you don't have to recalculate it.

Gate Rental Fees

The total value of gates you have rented, make up your gate rental fee. When renting a gate, you'll notice a rental fee (ranging from €50.000 to €300.000), which you'll have to pay for each gate you rent from that airport. The gate rental fee is withdrawn from your bank account at the end of every month.

Maintenance Fees

All your airplanes need regular servicing, and your Maintenance department will take care of that automatically. However, you'll have to pay a fee, depending on the size of your fleet and the age of your planes, at the end of every month.

Leasing Fees

If you've leased airplanes from another airline, you'll have to pay a specified amount per plane at the end of each month. You will also have to pay maintenance costs for those planes, but those costs will only be shown in the Maintenance Fees section.

Here too, at the end of the list, you'll find your total costs in the gray bar.

Total Profit

At the end of the list, the last gray bar shows you the total profit (or loss) of your airline.

Operations Department

On the left side of the page, you'll see a link to the Operations Department. You can click this link, but for now, the Operations Department is not functional. When it is, you'll be able to see more specifically where you spent your money on, or which parts of your business give you the most income.