Hi
I have experienced a few times now that after leasing a certain number of gates at an airport, the lease of gates I do not use (e.g. when there are more than 50 slots available at the airport) will terminate. As an example, I had leased two gates at AAL, each with a monthly cost of ~14k, total monthly cost: ~28k. Suddently one day, I only had one gate available at AAL, however, the price - ~28k a month - remains the same!! In the mean time, someone else has leased the last gate at AAL, meaning that I now need to build a terminal at AAL if I want to expand my operations, despite the fact that I am still paying for two gates!
The same thing happened at my HQ and hub, BLL. As it is my HQ, I had leased 5 gates per default, but one day two of the leases had been terminated without notice, despite the fact that the monthly lease cost (500k) remained the same! When I manually leased two more gates again, so I had a total of 5 once more, the lease cost went down to equal normal monthly gate leasing cost times 5 (around 140k) instead of the 500k you normally pay for gate leasing at a hub.
Needless to say, this is highly problematic - if inactive gates just dissapear, this means I cannot expand operations at a given airport, even though I have specifically leased the gates with the intention of future expansions. Furthermore, if the price either stays too high (e.g. paying for two gates although you only have access to one) or is set too low (e.g. paying 140k although you should be paying 500k for 5 gates) then it is completely impossible to work out your monthly gate cost and of course it could also give airlines an unfair advantage in the game!
I do hope that this matter will be seen to imminently.
Kind regards
Jonathan / Hammer Airways