Chapter 690 Hong Kong Airlines Flight Attendant Academy
Kendi Jesse didn't get a positive answer from Li Guangyu, so he could only leave disappointedly.
When he left Li Guangyu's office, he saw in the waiting room next to him, sitting in the waiting room next to them was Connie Akarin, the vice president of their Airbus rival Boeing. Last year, he was the one who came to Xiangjiang to beat himself to Li Guangyu.
The consortium got the order for the aircraft here.
If I hadn't had the help of the British government to allow Xiangjiang Airlines to increase its routes to the mainland, I'm afraid that my order for thirty aircraft would have been gone.
Unexpectedly, this person came again this time. After Kendi Jesse glanced at Connie Akarin for a few times, he walked towards the elevator. He was not in the mood to say hello to this person at this time.
Connie Akarin, who was waiting inside, also saw Kendi Jesse, but he could tell from his expression that the meeting with Li Guangyu was not satisfactory this time, which made him very happy.
The current economic weakness in Western Europe and the Americas has led to a sluggish aviation industry. Boeing's orders have fallen sharply, and they are also facing competition from Airbus, which makes them more eager to stabilize their markets in Asia.
Especially for large customers like the Li Group, they will never let Airbus snatch them away.
Boeing executives know very well that as the Lee Group continues to expand its influence in Asia, their Xiangjiang Airlines will become larger and larger. Three to five hundred aircraft is not a big deal for Xiangjiang Airlines.
In addition to Cathay Pacific, which is also affected by them, China Airlines in Baodao, and Malaysia Airlines and Thai Airways in the future, these are likely to follow the footsteps of Xiangjiang Airlines and purchase products from the same airline to facilitate future maintenance and
maintainance.
However, Connie Akarin is very clear that Xiangjiang Airlines will never purchase aircraft from a manufacturing company. By then, Xiangjiang Airlines will definitely have the presence of both Airbus and Boeing. This is due to the development needs of the Lee Group.
Of course, they need to compete for which company purchases the number of aircraft. He does not hope that Boeing's aircraft will only occupy a small part of Xiangjiang Airlines in the future, which will be a huge blow to them.
Moreover, this will also affect the sales of their Boeing company in the mainland. Currently, Xiangjiang Airlines has opened routes in many key cities in the mainland. If these routes are all operated by Airbus, it will have a great impact on the local area and will not be conducive to the promotion of their Boeing.
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While he was still thinking, Gan Qin came in and said, "Mr. Akarin, please come with me. Li Sheng is waiting for you in the office."
Li Guangyu replied to Connie Akarin in the same way as he replied to Kendi Jesse. This was not the time for him to discuss the purchase of a machine.
It was impossible for him to promise anything to both parties on these issues. After Zhao Wenhua discussed with them and determined the conditions of both companies, Li Guangyu decided which aircraft to buy.
As for the issue of Cathay Pacific's aircraft purchase, Li Guangyu directly passed it on to Guo Lingming. After all, the Singaporean consortium is the one that controls the airline, and Li Guangyu will not overstep his authority.
After sending the two people off, Li Guangyu asked Gan Qin to inform Zhao Wenhua to come to the office. Li Guangyu wanted to know the specific situation in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
The headquarters of Heung Kong Air Transport Group is located in the office building of Heung Kong Aircraft Engineering Company at Kai Tak Airport. Currently, the property market in Hong Kong has not yet bottomed out and the land is still relatively expensive, so they can only make do with it.
Next year, we will buy a piece of land in the surrounding area for the construction of the group building and the group community, for offices and for the residence of group employees.
After receiving Gan Qin's call, Zhao Wenhua spoke to the general manager of the administration department, left the group, and rushed towards the Li's Building.
Zhao Wenhua is also quite busy these days. First, there is a problem with the construction of the base in Bangkok. He sent the group's vice president Gu Shiyu there. As a result, among the five vice presidents of the group, only Zong Hongyan, the vice president in charge of finance and administration, is still there.
in the group.
The other four all went out. Wang Junchang went to lead Cathay Pacific Airways, Feng Senfei was in charge of the Baodao Aviation Base, Han Jingliang was in charge of the Kuala Lumpur Aviation Base, and Gu Shiyu went to Bangkok, which made the group's top management quite busy during this period.
Moreover, he has to communicate with Wang Junchang about route issues in the past few days to prevent the two airlines from forming huge competition and causing the two companies to lose too much profit.
In the past, Cathay Pacific was treated under special protection, so its flight schedule at Kai Tak Airport was quite bad, which greatly affected their passenger flow.
Now that it has been acquired by the Singaporean consortium and Lee's interest group, these naturally need to be adjusted, and at the same time, try to allow the two airlines to fly flights to the same area for a period of time to avoid the diversion of passenger flow.
In Li Guangyu's office, Zhao Wenhua gave Li Guangyu a detailed report on the construction of Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. At the same time, he also explained to Li Guangyu the investigation of the passenger flow in the aviation markets of the two places.
After listening to this, Li Guangyu asked him: "How many aircraft do you think we need from these two bases in the near future to meet the needs of the two places?"
"Li Sheng, in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, we mainly operate international flights and basically do not involve their domestic routes. There are many Chinese in these two areas. It takes at least two to three planes to go to the mainland.
Initial routes will be opened, mainly to Beijing, Shanghai and Huacheng in mainland China. Bangkok can also open routes to Chengdu."
"As for the international aspect, one is needed on the opposite side of Tokyo, then London, Los Angeles, Sydney, Jakarta, Paris, Seoul and other places. In this regard, I estimate that eight to ten will be needed in the initial stage to support it."
In this regard, Zhao Wenhua did not make the same layout as Xiangjiang and Baodao. There are many international routes in these two regions. Many important cities in the Americas, Western Europe, and Asia have opened flights.
Regardless of whether Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok are auxiliary bases, their status is far inferior to that of the two bases of Xiangjiang and Taoyuan. In the short term, Xiangjiang Airlines has no plans to improve routes to various regions for these two areas.
Li Guangyu said: "It is estimated that the top management of Boeing and Airbus will discuss the purchase of aircraft with you in the next two days. You and them will discuss it. The purchase of this time is tentatively set at 30 aircraft. Whichever one has a more suitable price will be purchased."
Products, as for routes, let the local person in charge make good plans. Once the base is put into use, the returning aircraft will be given priority to routes with higher passenger flow."
Zhao Wenhua immediately replied: "Okay Li Sheng, I will arrange it."
He was quite happy. After this time, the airline had ninety aircraft, and it was only ten short of reaching one hundred aircraft.
Their airlines are among the best in the world. He believes that this is just the beginning. In the future, the aviation market will continue to grow, the mainland economy will continue to develop, and Xiangjiang Airlines will continue to expand. He will be the first airline in the future.
The president of one of the world's top air transport groups.
Li Guangyu said: "Our airline continues to grow, and Cathay Pacific also needs talents from us, so the Xiangjiang Airlines Flight Attendant Academy in Tin Shui Wai should pay attention. It has been delivered to your group. How are you prepared?"
"Li Sheng, we will recruit a group of employees for training next month. At the same time, our aircraft engineering company's design major will also start classes there. In the first half of the year, we will mainly train internal personnel of the company. In the second half of the year, we will open up to the society
For enrollment, the duration of study at school is two years and the group internship is one year.”
This school will be a place to provide reserve talents for their group in the future. Zhao Wenhua has always attached great importance to it. Zong Hongyan, the vice president of the group, is personally responsible for the affairs there and goes to Tianshuiwei every week to inspect the situation there.
The school’s teachers are also served by elite talents from the group. He hopes that this school will become a base for Asian aviation talents in the future.