As soon as Roger Jim left the conference room, a company executive reported to Cao Guangbiao: "Sheng Cao, there is a call from the airport. Why has our flight to Vancouver not arrived at the reserved location at the airport? Many passengers are worried.
Waiting in the terminal to board the plane.”
Cao Guangbiao immediately asked the manager he was responsible for what the situation was. Didn't Roger Jim just say that he could handle it in the morning?
The person in charge said: "Cao Sheng, this flight is a long-distance flight and has a dedicated crew. Just yesterday they all resigned, and there is no replacement now."
Cao Guangbiao felt that he had a huge headache now. He didn't expect that he would encounter such a big problem just after taking office, and he still had to solve it.
Cao Guangbiao arranged for personnel to go to the airport to explain to the passengers, and at the same time refund the tickets for the passengers on this flight, and asked the employees who went there to appease the passengers. At the same time, he asked all departments of the company to perform their duties, maintain the operation of the company, and at the same time provide guidance to the passengers.
Recruit external personnel and strive to fill the vacancies of company personnel as soon as possible.
After making these arrangements, Cao Guangbiao immediately contacted Huo Yingdong and Bao Yugang, and met at Bao Yugang's Wharf to discuss the company's issues.
After listening to Cao Guangbiao's explanation of the situation at Cathay Pacific, Huo Yingdong and others had very serious expressions on their faces. At the same time, they also felt the difficulty of this incident.
Hu Yingxiang said angrily: "How could Li Guangyu do this? He wants to destroy Cathay Pacific, and the travel of Xiangjiang citizens will also be greatly affected. Doesn't he care about this?"
Fok Yingdong said: "From the moment we took over the shares of Cathay Pacific Airways from HSBC, it was destined that Cathay Pacific Airways and Xiangjiang Airlines would be a cruel competition, unless one of them was willing to withdraw. Moreover, as Guangbiao said
, Li Guangyu did not prepare for us alone this time, whoever takes over Cathay Pacific will face the current situation."
In fact, everyone here knows that since they took over the shares of Cathay Pacific Airways, they have been on the opposite side of the Li Group. The Xiangjiang market is so big. Even though they know that the Li Group has established an airline, they still want to acquire Cathay Pacific.
Airlines, you can't ask them to consider you.
It is impossible for Li Guangyu to let his own airline suffer losses and let himself and others develop Cathay Pacific Airways.
Huo Yingdong heard Cao Guangbiao mention that he could open more routes by communicating with the mainland. He agreed to Cao Guangbiao's proposal without thinking about it at the time. Now that he thinks about it seriously, he is afraid that the gain will outweigh the loss.
They knew very well that Cathay Pacific was the first company Li Guangyu wanted to acquire. It was only because of the difficulties faced by Hong Kong's British consortium that he found another way and approached the British government to form a new airline. The purpose was to squeeze Cathay Pacific out of business.
It's just that the British consortium, especially HSBC, had the foresight to sell the shares in advance, and the people who took over were those who wanted to own the airline.
Huo Yingdong estimated that Li Guangyu was secretly planning these things at that time. Everyone is not a fool. Li Guangyu must be aware of some of his own advantages. If he wants Xiangjiang Airlines not to be suppressed by Cathay Pacific, he will definitely do something
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Pao Yugang said: "Li Guangyu has always taken great care of our Chinese-owned family in Xiangjiang, but we cannot blame each other for this incident. You must know that Xiangjiang Airlines was established long ago, and we only acquired Cathay Pacific later.
Company, this is because we want to compete with them for the market, and you should not say anything about Li Guangyu destroying the unity of the Chinese family in Hong Kong."
Cao Guangbiao blushed at Bao Yugang's words. He was the one who instigated the acquisition of Cathay Pacific Airways. After he took over such a situation, he began to complain that Li Guangyu was unethical and did not care about the unity of the Chinese family in Hong Kong.
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Huo Yingdong knew the intentions of his old friend. He also hoped that after taking control of the airline, he could open more routes to the mainland and strengthen the mutual exchanges between Xiangjiang and the mainland. This was why he was willing to invest in the acquisition with him.
He also knew that after he and others took control of Cathay Pacific Airways, they would definitely compete with Xiangjiang Airlines. However, he originally thought that Xiangjiang Airlines did not have a single aircraft yet, and it was too early for the two companies to enter into fierce competition.
He planned to wait for Cao Guangbiao to take control of Cathay Pacific before communicating with Li Guangyu, hoping to reduce the fight between the two companies as much as possible.
I just didn't expect that Li Guangyu would take action so quickly. It was a fatal blow to Cathay Pacific. Without so many senior executives and a large number of pilots and flight attendants, Cathay Pacific would have to ground at least one-third of its flights this time.
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Hu Yingxiang said: "We are not thinking about Li Guangyu's problem now, but how to solve the situation at hand. If it is not handled well this time, it will have a huge impact on Cathay Pacific Airways."
Hu Yingxiang stopped complaining about Li Guangyu's actions. Cathay Pacific's affairs are still important now. If this is not handled well, they will be in considerable trouble.
Huo Yingdong and others were in a very difficult situation. They did not have a close relationship with Li Guangyu. It was really hard for them to directly ask Li Guangyu for help on this matter. But without Li Guangyu's help, their Cathay Pacific Airways problem would not be solved.
Then everyone turned their attention to Bao Yugang, among whom only Bao Yugang and Li Guangyu had a relatively close relationship. They hoped to let the chartering king come forward to solve this problem.
Pao Yugang himself is not willing to get involved. He owns 5% of the shares in the airline, which is relatively small among these companies. This is just to support them. He hopes that they can strengthen exchanges between Xiangjiang and the mainland.
I never thought about making money here.
Pao Yugang said: "Yingdong, why don't you contact Stanley Ho? I think based on your relationship with him, he will become a lobbyist."
Stanley Ho was able to prosper in Lisboa, and there was also some affection for Fok Yingdong. If Fok Yingdong went to talk about it, it would be really difficult for Stanley Ho to handle it.
Huo Yingdong said: "Yugang, you don't have to come up with such an idea. This will make us and the He family no longer even friends. It is estimated that the Li Group will turn their guns against us."
Bao Yugang said: "Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. It's okay if you know this embarrassment. You think I can just talk about it. You want me to use my own face and my relationship with Li Guangyu in the past few years."
In exchange for Li Guangyu helping his company's rivals, what would you think if you were Li Guangyu?"
Pao Yugang was quite dissatisfied with this. Although the relationship between his family and Li Guangyu was not as good as that of Li Ka-shing, Li Shau Kee and Guo Desheng, it was very good compared to other families in Xiangjiang. How could he
Maybe the friendship built up over the years was ruined for the sake of Cathay Pacific Airways.
Seeing the dispute between Huo Yingdong and Bao Yugang, Dong Haoyun immediately said: "Yingdong, Yugang, this time it is also because Cathay Pacific is indeed facing a huge crisis and urgently needs us to deal with it immediately, and the only person in Xiangjiang who has the ability to help us is Li
Guangyu. Regardless of the interests of the company, we have to consider the travel of Xiangjiang citizens. The grounding of our flights will have a great impact on them."