A lot of people gathered at Bien Bei Airport today. Everyone looked up at the sky, as if they were expecting something.
Just as everyone was looking forward to it, a plane appeared in everyone's sight. The black plane was particularly eye-catching, and there were two large English subtitles on the plane.
People here are very familiar with this logo. SF Express used to be Longteng Express, but it finally became independent and became an independent express company.
The people here are familiar with it because this is the only express company other than Huaxia Post that can come to Bianbei County.
After the establishment of the Longteng Express System, the Longteng Group has been working hard in the western region. At the beginning of doing express delivery in the west, it always lost money.
Fortunately, the product is profitable, so overall it is still profitable. After SF Express became independent, it still maintained its original policy in the western region.
However, in the western region, SF Express has its own policy. This policy is that it does not lose money. If it does not make money, it will charge a cost price.
Over the past few years, SF Express has been remembered by people in the west. Now people in the west will choose SF Express whether they are shopping online or sending things.
Today is the first day that Bienbei Airport is open to traffic. The first plane to land was the SF Express plane.
Airbus converted the cargo plane into a cargo plane, removing the seats and removing unnecessary interior decorations, allowing the plane's cargo capacity to reach 4.2 tons.
At the same time, the aircraft's cabin door is also different from that of a passenger aircraft. The cabin door is at the rear of the aircraft, making it easier to load and unload cargo.
Although Airbus does not take out food, SF Express is not an outsider either. SF Express is eligible to purchase the cargo version of Airbus.
And the price is not expensive. What SF Express purchased was the internal price, and one unit only cost 10 million yuan. Even at the internal price, the profit was as high as more than 5 million yuan.
Aircraft are not a rare thing for SF Express. SF Express has many large cargo aircraft. However, those aircraft are expensive to build, with one aircraft costing hundreds of millions.
Although the airbus transportation volume is small, the price is cheap. For one large plane, you can buy dozens of airbuses.
As for the cargo capacity, one plane cannot compare. Ten or twenty planes combined will definitely carry more cargo than one large plane.
At present, SF Express's largest cargo aircraft is a domestically produced large transport aircraft. Even the largest large aircraft has a cargo capacity of only 65 tons.
The purchase price of such a transport aircraft is 450 million yuan. This is still a preferential price. At this price, you can buy 45 Airbuses.
The combined cargo volume of 45 Airbuses can reach 189 tons, which is almost three times that of large aircraft.
In addition to these, it also has advantages in operating costs. In addition to relatively expensive fuel costs, large cargo aircraft also require unconventional maintenance.
Four high-power engines are simply a fuel guzzler. Taken together, the operating cost of a large cargo plane is even higher than the operating cost of 45 Airbuses.
The most important thing is that the take-off and landing of large transport aircraft are relatively demanding at the airport. They are not as flexible as Airbus.
Now that Airbus is available, it is even more powerful for SF Express. You must know that competition in the domestic express delivery industry is fierce.
Everyone is competing for freight speed, and several major express companies are also constantly adding their own aircraft.
SF Express had already owned forty aircraft of various sizes before. This time, SF Express was even more generous and placed an order for 1,000 cargo buses at once.
In the future, SF Express will continue to place orders and expand its air superiority. SF Express's goal is simple: to be the first to complete next-day delivery nationwide.
In the developed eastern regions, next-day delivery is basically achievable for SF Express. However, in the western regions, it is still far from being achievable.
Now that cargo buses are available, SF Express can complete this project in the western region. In the western region, cargo aircraft have greater advantages than cars.
Not only in terms of speed, but also the operating cost is lower than that of a car. For example, this cargo plane is flying from the capital of Shu.
It took two hours, and the operating cost was almost 2,000 yuan. And if it were replaced by a car, 2,000 yuan would not be enough to pay for gas.
Driving a truck from Shudu, the highway distance is as high as 2,400 kilometers. It takes almost two days to drive.
The total cost of fuel and highway fees for driving is at least 2,500 yuan.
With low cost and fast speed, this operation method is particularly suitable for transporting small goods.
Especially for online shopping, many items purchased online can be shipped by air. This includes home appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines.
Unless the items are relatively large, trucks will be used to transport them. Therefore, cargo buses can basically solve the transportation problem here.
In the past, although people in Bianbei also shopped online, many things took a long time to get to Bianbei. Especially for goods sent from the east, it often took a week or more to be delivered to Bianbei County.
Even goods coming from Saskatchewan sometimes take several days. This speed actually greatly limits people's enthusiasm for online shopping.
In addition to online shopping, many things in shopping malls in Bianbei County are also relatively expensive because the transportation cost is too expensive.
Products shipped from the mainland must first be transported to Sacheng. Then they are transported from Sacheng to Bienbei County. It is still more than 800 kilometers from Sacheng to Bienbei County, and it takes almost 11 hours for trucks to travel on the highway.
Transportation costs restrict product prices. Products that are relatively cheap in the mainland will increase a lot in price here, which also restricts consumer enthusiasm here.
Now, everyone finally saw hope. The cargo plane landed at the airport without hesitation, entered the hangar accurately, and was then transported to the cargo terminal as a whole by the plane.
After arriving at the cargo booth, the hatch at the back opened, and a unique small container in the cabin was pulled out as a whole.
This kind of container is made of aluminum alloy and is relatively light. After all, for airplanes, the weight can be reduced as much as possible.
The container was pulled out and put on a special small truck for transportation. The aircraft was directly transferred to a special hangar for charging, cleaning and inspection, which is the same process as for passenger transportation.
After the first plane landed, the second, the third, the fourth...
Planes landed here one after another, and finally a total of ten planes landed. Six cargo planes, and four passenger planes.
These four passenger planes flew in from four directions at the same time. The longest they flew in was from a city 1,500 kilometers away.
This distance directly reaches the ultimate flight distance of Airbus.
It has a range of 1,500 kilometers and a flight time of three hours. It can be reached directly without a special plane. Although it cannot reach the easternmost part, it can reach Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province and other places. If you want to go to the east, go directly
It's completely fine to transfer another plane, and travel is still very convenient.