Naturally, Li Guangyu would not just find two Boeing 747-2oos to use. He also asked Airbus to provide four Airbus A3oo-B4s. For this reason, he promised Airbus to purchase aircraft under the same conditions next time.
Next, give priority to purchasing Airbus aircraft.
This time Airbus was more forthcoming and directly transferred the aircraft that were originally scheduled to be delivered to Air Paris and West German Airlines. Anyway, those two companies are not very short of aircraft. There was no problem in the past few months. Last time
The British government made concessions for the order, and this time France and West Germany also agreed to Airbus's request for the benefit of Airbus.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. MacLehose, maybe you don't know yet, our airline already has four Airbus A3oo-B2 aircraft from Airbus that are ready for delivery. Ms. Du Yuemei rushed to Airbus yesterday
Headquarters, I estimate that several passenger planes will take off from Paris and return to Hong Kong today. For this purpose, our company specially borrowed eight crew members from British Airways."
MacLehose did not expect that Li Guangyu was really able to spend money. He knew that Li Guangyu must have given a lot of benefits, otherwise how could they agree to his request so easily. Especially British Airways, although its affiliated airlines
There are many companies, so deploying these crew members is not a problem at all, but this configuration is already the configuration for four long flights. I don’t know what kind of promise Li Guangyu gave them.
MacLehose also felt that Li Guangyu was ruthless. In order to achieve the rapid development of his airline, he either poached or borrowed people to achieve the purpose of opening flights. There is no so-called adaptation period for the current personnel of his airline. They are all working all the time.
For those who are working, this time they just changed companies and planes, and it had no impact on their work at all.
MacLehose didn't care what price Li Guangyu paid, he said: "Are you planning to open those routes this time? Have you communicated with the locals?"
Li Guangyu said: "In Japan, we will obtain permission from Tokyo Haneda Airport and Chiang Kai-shek Airport on the island. As long as I am ready, we will schedule flights there. We have also communicated with Los Angeles Airport in California.
, the others are London, Singapore and Bangkok.”
MacLehose said: "Mr. Li, your Li Group has strong influence in other regions, so there is no problem in opening it. But how did you get approval in Singapore so quickly?"
What is Li Guangyu thinking? Do you really think that he only wanted to discuss routes after Cathay Pacific personnel came over? For the first batch of 16 routes, he started to contact the airline after he applied for approval. That
At that time, the big bosses of the Singaporean consortium had not returned to Singapore, and besides, he had contacted some families in Singapore and Cao Wenjin's local connections to get it.
This time, Baodao and Japan were happy. The airport governments of Li Guangyu and Li Guangyu approved Xiangjiang Airlines' route application within two days. The United States and Britain also spent a lot of time on Peng Xiaoli and Du Yuemei before getting approval for the route.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. MacLehose, we can naturally take some measures. Now you need to stabilize the mood of the passengers at Kai Tak Airport. The earliest plane we rented will arrive this afternoon, and the Airbus plane is expected to arrive tomorrow afternoon.
So we still need your government to make preparations during this period. At the same time, we hope that the airport will take pictures of our flights to London and Los Angeles tomorrow."
MacLehose said: "We will let the airport consider this for you, and we will ensure that you can take off smoothly tomorrow."
At the same time, Li Guangyu considered that there would be more and more airplanes in the future, and the parking spaces of his Xiangjiang Aircraft Engineering Company could not supply so many airplanes. He also needed to build his own place to park airplanes. It seemed that he really had to buy land this time.
Li Guangyu said: "Mr. MacLehose, considering the increase in the number of aircraft of our airline in the future, we need some land to build our parking spaces. We hope the government can give us approval in this regard."
MacLehose knew that Cathay Pacific would obviously not serve Hong Kong Airlines. If Li Guangyu hadn't acquired Hong Kong Aircraft Engineering Company this time, they wouldn't even have a place to park so many planes. You know, Kai Tak Airport can
There are not that many seats available to Xiangjiang Airlines.
He never thought of embarrassing Li Guangyu and asked Li Guangyu's company to apply. He would give instructions and the price would be based on the market price.
Although Li Guangyu knew that it was very expensive at this time, his airline could not wait until this time next year, so he could only hold his nose and admit it.
After MacLehose saw off Li Guangyu, he immediately contacted the airport and told the news that Li Guangyu Airlines was about to fly. At the same time, he ordered the airport personnel to contact Xiangjiang Airlines to confirm the flight number and time, and start the process.
Pre-sale tickets to stabilize the mood of some citizens.
Li Guangyu had just returned to the company in the afternoon when Zhao Wenhua came to report on things at the airport.
Li Guangyu said: "Wenhua, how well do you understand the company's situation?"
Zhao Wenhua originally thought that he needed to develop everything when he came here. Unexpectedly, Li Xuemei had already done a lot of things for him, so he could just take over by himself.
For example, regarding route issues, he only needs to be responsible for the last 16, and it will not affect the airline's early operations at all.
Especially when Li Xuemei told him some of their plans, Zhao Wenhua felt that even if he was on Cathay Pacific, he would probably be miserable when facing Xiangjiang Airlines.
Zhao Wenhua expected that the flight would not start until the beginning of next month. He did not expect that Li Guangyu would secretly play such a big game. Taking advantage of Cathay Pacific's current troubles, entering the market will definitely be very good for Xiangjiang Airlines.
"Li Sheng, I read some of the company's recent documents and also consulted Ms. Li Xuemei. I am very confident about the company's development. I have already made a plan for tomorrow's flight. Once you approve it, I will go
Discuss with Kai Tak Airport and hope that you can ask Ms. Peng and Ms. Du to cooperate with us," Zhao Wenhua said.
Zhao Wenhua himself did not dare to directly ask those two to cooperate with him. They were several levels behind him in terms of level and status in the group, and those two had the right to control him.
Li Guangyu said: "Just contact them directly. I have already explained to them that this time our fares will be 20% off. At the same time, we must do a good job in service. I don't want our airline to report some scandals."
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Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, don't worry, Vice President Wang Junchang is personally responsible for this and will try to reduce the occurrence of such things."
Li Guangyu thought that more and more planes would come back in the future, and he would have to reserve more personnel. Otherwise, it would be a tragedy like Cathay Pacific, where there are planes but cannot take off.
Li Guangyu said: "Our airline should pay attention to cultivating reserve personnel. You also know that we have new planes coming back every month. The company's personnel are still far from enough. In particular, we need to recruit more flight attendants. How many of us do we need?"
The person in charge of a large region will not poach flight attendants."
Gan Qinglin and the others are mainly recruiting pilots and some maintenance and support personnel. Xiangjiang can handle the problem of flight attendant service personnel by itself, and it does not require high skills.
Li Guangyu then told him about the company's parking space and asked him and the door company to design and apply for it themselves.