That reminds me of the restaurant using its liquidity to prepay its dry aged steak supplier.

https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/#3-pre-payments-in-the...

Liquidity is expensive. Selling a carrier one at a time is like a retail business where you're expected to hold onto stock. If you don't build up an inventory to sell from and just sell one unit, you have to markup the price to cover the cost of the factory when it is idle.