there is a huge amount of company money residing in those ready to deliver aircraft, and therefore justifiable reason to exert every effort to deliver and receive payment
I can vouch for that - especially as the fiscal year draws to a close!!!
Dec 2006, "are you sure they're ready?" "Oh yes, they're finished," so 7 of us head BWN-SIN-EWR, drive to PA and..........you want us to accept what? So back home again. Even had the offer of the UT G-V to collect us after Christmas - and before the 31st - to accept them!
Jan 2007 BWN-SIN-EWR, drive to PA and.........accept 3 finished airframes, and back home awaiting their arrival in the 224.