How much cash is genuinely available today, what happens when you ask for more, and why we publish the number instead of finding out at the counter.
Confusing these three is how clients end up disappointed at a counter, so we publish all of them separately rather than averaging them into a single reassuring figure.
Below 80,000 EUR equivalent an agent stops receiving offers until they top up. An inflated float would only produce jobs they cannot serve and disputes that come back to them, so the incentive runs the right way.
Ask for more than the standing reserve on a route and nothing is refused — you are told the desk needs 24 hours to position the cash, and given the option to split it or book for tomorrow. The rate is quoted when you commit, not when you enquire.
Floats are replenished on a schedule that differs by city: twice weekly in Istanbul, daily in Beograd and Dubai, on demand in appointment-only cities that hold no walk-in cash at all. Volume also moves them — a single large morning handover can take a mid-size desk below threshold until it is refunded.
This is why every city page states its own position rather than pointing at a network average.
It is the agent’s declared position, reconciled against a counted figure at the end of each day. Treat it as accurate to within a few hours rather than to the minute.
Two agents in the same city can be combined, or the desk positions cash with a day’s notice. Above roughly half a million in one city, expect to book.
Because they hold none. Zürich and Wien are arranged in advance and funded for the specific handover, which is also why they carry a discretion premium in the spread.
Not within your lock. Size affects whether notice is required, not the price you were quoted.