Woops! Watch out you dont do the same!

I just made a pretty decent mistake, so I thought I’d share it with you all so you don’t do the same thing!

A strategy of mine was no longer working, so I decided I would pursure a new strategy. This involved changing the plane types of about half the fleet. All my planes are leased, so I figured this would be relatively simple… Terminate the lease of the unwanted 737-900’s and sign a lease for the lovely new A330! Given I could get an A330 for a little over the deposit of two 737’s all would be good.

I jumped into the schedule screen of the unwanted routes, and clicked delete - so far so good.

Next I went to the flight screen, clicked on all the scheduled flights and hit the delete button - Mistake no.1, I lost a considerable amount of money in cancelation fees.

Thinking I was too late now to back track I figured oh well good thing if terminate the lease and get the A330… Unfortunately when you terminate a lease it doesn’t refund the money until the end of the week!

So what did I learn (and thought you could too)?

[list=1][]Cancel the flight schedule, but DO NOT CANCEL SCHEDULED FLIGHTS!!!! It’s costly.[]If your going to terminate a lease, make sure you line the final flights to be just before the lease renewal date is.[*]Don’t expect instant $$ out of terminating a lease.[/list]No doubt you can all get some LOL’s out of this :lol:

Hi,

I think this is a fail every new AS-player do in his/her carrier :)

best regards

Flanker

Hi Dita,

you have a short memory

The penalty for cancelling a flight and the fact that you lease a plane per week (and get your money back at the end of that week minus the last lease) are both topics that have been discussed here in the past weeks.

Cancelling flights (in the community support forum)

Basic questions (the topic below this one)

Jan

Yeah, I have been devoting most of my brain power to the 3 uni assessments due last week

Plus there’s another small problem with changing one leased aircraft for another is that either you are left with redundant pilots when the canceled lease runs out, or you have to wait for the lease to run out before you can assign the pilots to the newly leased aircraft.

you also make a loss on your flight equipment (i.e. seats).

I have also did this mistakes.

I may or may not have made the same mistakes in the past. But overtime the only real way to learn how to play the game is to make a lot of mistakes!

Haha stressful work eh ?

Yeah it was pretty full on! Got good marks for them tho, so it was all worth it.