After nearly three months, Zhao Wenhua finally got the opening of the first route in mainland China. This is a very good start for Xiangjiang Airlines. Its route is the route from Xiangjiang to Huacheng. As for Beijing and Shanghai, applications are still being made.
Among them, it is estimated that it will take some time to wait.
Li Guangyu had just returned from Hutchison Whampoa, and Zhao Wenhua reported the good news to Li Guangyu.
Li Guangyu was also very happy after hearing this. He knew that the difficulty of getting the route there was far greater than the routes he opened in other regions. Although only one route has been approved so far, Li Guangyu believes that in the future, Xiangjiang will be bound for mainland cities.
There will be more and more routes.
Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, this time the route to Huacheng was approved so quickly. The leaders of Guangdong Province gave us a lot of help. It is because of their promotion that our route to Huacheng was approved so quickly."
Li Guangyu knew that the high-level efforts of Guangdong Province this time were, firstly, to strengthen the connection between Xiangjiang and them, and secondly, to support Xiangjiang Airlines so that Li Guangyu could continue to maintain his investment in Pengcheng.
Li Guangyu said: "The other two cities should also step up contact and strive to open routes to these two cities as soon as possible. At the same time, we should also pay attention to the passenger flow situation at the airports of several other major cities in mainland China, and apply for routes from them when the time is right.
Open."
After Li Guangyu finished talking about the arrangements for the mainland routes, he told Zhao Wenhua about the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company and asked him to arrange for someone to go to Hutchison Whampoa to acquire its shares. At the same time, he asked him to hold a board meeting as a major shareholder.
meeting, and officially began to take over the affairs of the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company.
Zhao Wenhua is very happy about this. He has Xiangjiang Aircraft Engineering Company under Xiangjiang Airlines, and now he has Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company. He believes that his company is not far away from establishing a group, and he himself will officially join the Li family.
Senior executives of the group.
Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, after I go back, I will lead the staff to go to Hutchison Whampoa to negotiate the acquisition in person, and strive to complete the acquisition of its shares in the next two days. By then, we will hold 50% of the shares in the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company.
The superiors have the right to make changes to the company’s personnel.”
Li Guangyu said: "This wholly-owned acquisition may take a long time, so you have to keep the company operating normally and don't let things like Cathay Pacific happen to this company, otherwise we will be in bigger trouble."
Li Guangyu was mainly worried that Henry Keswick and Wooden Shihuai were obstructing it. He was not like the cargo plane arriving in Hong Kong that was unable to unload its cargo.
Zhao Wenhua immediately promised: "Li Sheng, I will maintain the stable development of the company and will not let what happened to Cathay Pacific happen to our Xiangjiang Airlines."
Zhao Wenhua doesn’t believe that someone will come to poach someone at this time. There is only one air cargo terminal management company in Xiangjiang. If these people change jobs, it will be difficult for them to find jobs in the same industry. Moreover, when they come to poach the Li Group, they have to consider whether their company can
We cannot afford the revenge of the Li Group.
Li Guangyu said: "You should try to complete the route plan of the airline as soon as possible. Mr. MacLehose will leave office in less than half a year. Once the governor is changed, we are not sure that we can be so easy to talk to.
You should try to open up more routes in the next few months."
Zhao Wenhua also knows that Xiangjiang Airlines currently has no restrictions on routes. If he does not seize this time to win some routes, he will be sorry for Li Guangyu's fight for such a good opportunity for them.
Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, I will arrange for people to go to some of the cities we have booked to negotiate and try to win these routes as soon as possible. However, I still need your instructions on the layout on the mainland."
Li Guangyu said: "Cities on the mainland are mainly located in the areas of Tianmen, Fengtian, Chang'an, Jiangcheng, Rongcheng, Shuangqing, Lin'an, and Jinling. As many as we can apply for, we can open one flight per week in the early stage. It will be used as a market.
Yes. As passenger traffic changes, we are increasing flights."
Li Guangyu knows that as the mainland's reform and opening up continues, more and more mainlanders will come to Xiangjiang, and there will be no problem with the passenger flow in the future. As for now, more people from the Xiangjiang side will come.
More people are going to the mainland.
Passengers coming from the mainland are mainly government officials and international students, and ordinary citizens are not that powerful yet.
Zhao Wenhua did not expect that Li Guangyu was so optimistic about the mainland market and asked him to discuss air routes with so many cities at once.
However, he did not object to Li Guangyu's request. Since Li Guangyu gave the order, he would just do it as he was told. However, with so many route applications, Zhao Wenhua himself was not sure how many could be passed on the mainland.
Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, after our company takes over the Xiangjiang Air Cargo Terminal Management Company, I will personally go north to these cities to negotiate with the local governments and strive to win these routes."
Li Guangyu said: "Just do your best in this regard. I won't give you any rigid targets. Every one counts."
The routes on the mainland not only require approval from the local government, but also require approval from the aviation administration. They also have many things to consider. Li Guangyu does not think that Xiangjiang Airlines can obtain so many routes at once.
Li Guangyu’s biggest routes are still in Chengdu and Shuangqing. Li Guangyu’s hometown is in Sichuan Province. Over the years, the Cao Weiqing Charitable Fund has been funding the establishment of rural primary schools in Sichuan Province. He believes that Xiangjiang Airlines will open it there
They will support the routes between the two cities.
Although Li Guangyu said this, Zhao Wenhua was still determined to win more routes to more cities and live up to Li Guangyu's high regard for him.
Zhao Wenhua then reported to Li Guangyu the use problems of the four passenger planes that returned this month.
One of the Airbus aircraft is used on the Huacheng route, and the other three passenger planes are flying directly to San Francisco, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur.
After hearing this, Li Guangyu said: "We need to speed up the layout of Southeast Asia. The Baodao side cannot only have the Taipei route, but also prepare a layout in Tainan. The Japanese side can't just focus on Tokyo. As for South Korea, there is a Seoul route.
Don’t be too anxious.”
Zhao Wenhua also hopes to open more routes, but there are not enough planes now. It would be good if every country and region can open flights to one city. If he wants to open more routes to other cities, he has to wait for more planes to come back.
Just fine.
At the same time, Zhao Wenhua also felt that Xiangjiang Airlines was much more tired than Cathay Pacific Airways. It was difficult for them to add two routes a year. Xiangjiang Airlines was constantly adding routes every month. If it weren't for the aircraft,
If I can't keep up, I'm afraid Xiangjiang Airlines has their planes taking off every hour from the airport.
Zhao Wenhua said: "Li Sheng, when we have sufficient transportation capacity, I will consider opening additional routes in these areas. You also know that our airline currently has only 12 aircraft in total, and including the aircraft returning this month, there are only 16
"Compared to the routes, we still have too few planes."
Li Guangyu doesn't have much to do about this. Boeing and Airbus can provide them with two passenger planes each month, which is pretty good.