[Not bug] Airline value decreased in the same day 1,000,000,000

[Brintakis]

Hello,

I am in world #1297 with player id 36076.

The date now of the game is 20 May 1993. The previous day at 19th of May I was editing the routes in order to increase the loadfactor and I increased it almost 1% from 97% to 98+%. Suddenly when I checked the ranking I saw that I fell 3 positions from 16 to 19 and loosing 1,000,000,000 value
The exactly numbers are
16   Cretan Air   GCA   €21,470,244,968   417,186   96.53%   36076    19th of May
19   Cretan Air   GCA   €20,484,013,412   426,209   98.19%   36076    19th of May
19   Cretan Air   GCA   €20,546,237,073   426,630   98.21%   36076    20th of May

In parallel the 19th of May I had this transaction:

The following aircraft has been bought from you by Maki Airlines: #11469 - BAC 111-475 at a price of € 27,500,000

Maybe this is not a bug, but it seems strange for me. Does anyone knows something? I have also screenshots of the same day.

[dktc]

Most probably because I accepted your brokerage requests at that time.

Your two brokerage requests for A330-300LR's and A300-600R's demanded a combined downpayment of 981,542,935. The downpayment would be counted as your asset before the requests were accepted, since you could have retracted the requests with a full refund of downpayment. As soon as the broker (myself in this case) has accepted the brokerage requests, the downpayment would change into capital expenditures. They would be treated as sunk costs (ie. cannot be recovered regardless), and therefore subtracted from your assets. The ownership of the downpayment would be transferred to the aircraft manufacturer, while the titles of the aircrafts would be in the broker's hands. As a result, your asset would not take into account of the aircrafts being manufactured under brokerage requests, unlike when you order directly from the manufacturer. The aircrafts would only count as your assets once you have paid the rest of the costs, and taken delivery (and thus ownership) of them.

Hope this helps.

[Brintakis]

Interesting... I haven't thought this. It is a good explanation.

Thanks