Chapter 293 Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes
On August 12, 2001, the grand opening ceremony of the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel, which lasted for several days, had ended two days ago.
Strictly speaking, the consumption for the three days of the reward cannot be called "free/discount/profit". Those words are too cliché and undermine the status of the aristocrat.
Whether it's in terms of publicity or actual accounts, the consumption during the three days since the opening was considered a treat of "everyone pays the bill tonight".
It's shameful to discount, but it won't be shameful if everyone pays the bill.
After all, the Lanfang Burj Al Arab Hotel is not solely owned by Gu Kun. From a financial point of view, the Burj Al Arab Hotel has four major factions of shareholders. Gu Kun only accounts for 40%, the Lanfang Royal Family accounts for 51%, and there are nine points respectively.
COSCO invested 5% financially, and then Lanfang foreign trade tycoon Sa Wuyang (Zhu Youran's uncle) invested 2%. Finally, Lin Ying's family also invested 2%.
There is no dry stock in this, everyone is spending solid money. The entire project has invested 1.2 billion U.S. dollars, and the registered capital is directly declared, and each percentage point of equity is 12 million U.S. dollars.
Most shareholders have no pressure to provide this money, but Sa Wuyang and Lin Ying feel difficulty to varying degrees.
Lin Ying's family sold most of their previous business and spent almost all their money to buy 2% of the senior management's shares. This shows that this girl also has a bit of self-respect. Everyone is playing, but Lin Ying takes the initiative
Stick to each one's own opinions.
Since Gu Kun's investment in the hotel only accounts for 40% of the shares in the hotel, his treat is qualified to be regarded as a genuine treat and not a false one.
He actually spent 12 million yuan on room rates per day and a total of 36 million yuan on a three-day hotel reservation. In addition to banquets and catering, as well as private tours of surrounding attractions, Gu Kun spent a total of 50 million yuan on food, accommodation, and entertainment.
Banquet guests.
On the 12th, most of the guests were ready to leave. Only those who were not too busy were left. They wanted to spend a few more days at their own expense while nothing was bothering them, and by the way, they could experience a handful of the Royal Suite and the Presidential Suite.
Only the top distinguished guests continue to stay in Lanfang.
For example, people like Chief Mahathir.
After all, no matter how good the treatment was during the dinner party, there was no way to stay in the royal suite. At that time, Gu Kun and Zhu Youran personally occupied Nu to experience the first blood. No matter how noble their status was, everyone else had to pay for the royal suite if they wanted to.
And those guests who are busy spending 108,000 yuan a day to experience the presidential suite after the entertainment are over, are mostly executives from luxury entertainment media similar to "Playboy". These people are enjoying eye-opening while also enjoying the experience.
You can make money by posting some "insider experience revealing" pictures and texts in a timely manner. They themselves make a living by reporting on the lifestyle of wealthy people, so they are more willing to spend money than ordinary people.
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However, Mr. Iprasin of the Diba tribe is obviously not among the above two categories.
Especially Mr. Mahathir, who came with him from the tribe in Abu Dhabi next door. The subtle changes in his attitude in the past few days made Iprasim very unhappy. However, the other party was his investor and he could not get angry. He could only
He held it in his heart, almost causing internal injuries. He felt disgusted by every plant and tree in Lanfang. No matter how beautiful the scenery was, he didn't want to play any more in the day.
On the morning of the 12th, Iprasin took the Rolls-Royce brought by air and went straight to Lanfang International Airport, preparing to return home.
With his status, of course he has a special car and a special plane, but the special plane he usually takes is a Gulfstream G550, a model with less than 20 seats, and it is impossible to transport the car randomly together——
The Diba tribe does still have some money, but the reproductive capabilities of the upper echelons of the tribes in the Middle East are generally strong. They often have dozens of children in a lifetime. When there are more chiefs, it is impossible for everyone to be equipped with a special plane. Each one costs 2,000 to 3,000 yuan.
The $10,000 Gulfstream G550 is already the limit.
Especially in many cases, because the eldest son can inherit the title and a major part of the family business, he is prone to fall into the "curse of resources" like the older generation. That is, because oil money is so easy to come by, he just spends his time doing nothing but doing business, and has no intention of developing and innovating his business.
No achievements and no ambition.
On the contrary, among the younger sons, it is easy to have one or two who are ambitious and have a sense of crisis, who are aggressive and dare to fight in business. Chief Iprasin is obviously also in this category. His father will definitely take the position of tribal chief in the future.
It was to be passed on to his chief brother.
So his driver usually drove a G550, and this time he came to Lanzhou to attend the ceremony. Before he came, he regarded Gu Kun as a strong rival in the fight for the "most wealthy city in the world" business card, so he needed to try to be as fat as possible.
To decorate the scene, he managed to persuade his father to lend him his own Boeing 747 plane to support his appearance, and also brought a limited-edition custom-made Rolls-Royce car to him.
Previously, Iprasing arrived in the Netherlands much earlier than Mahathir and even other invited guests. He arrived at the end of July, more than a week earlier than others. This was because he needed to inspect many of the construction measures in the Netherlands and take
Learn from the experience.
At this time, I arrived at Lanfang Airport again after half a month. The prosperity of the airport gave Iprasin a chill down his spine.
"What? Didn't we just land here two weeks ago? Why does this airport look so prosperous and crowded in such a short time? It seems that even the decoration has become more stylish. I didn't hear that there is a special closure here for renovation."
"Why don't you arrange a flight path for us? You actually have the nerve to make us wait four hours before taking off? Damn you! If we take off earlier, can't they free up a hangar or apron earlier?"
Several messages in succession made Iprasin a little upset, and he couldn't help but complain about the service quality of the airport.
It turns out that there are many more planes at the airport than half a month ago. I heard that in this half month, more than ten additional international routes were opened.
And although the adjacent Runway 2 has never been completed, the apron facilities attached to Runway 2 have recently been temporarily activated. If the aircraft after landing from Runway 1 needs to stay for a long time or wait for refueling, it can be moved first.
To the supporting apron of Runway 2.
After all, for an airport runway, whether it can be used to take off and land aircraft, and whether it can be used to move aircraft on the ground, the technical index requirements can be many times different.
The construction of Runway 1 of Lanfang International Airport started in 1995 and was put into commercial use before July 1997. At that time, the saturation rate of Runway 1 was only more than 20%. Later, it developed to 1998 and 1999, and China, Japan and South Korea
After the tourism market is further developed, the utilization rate will only be 30% to 40%.
However, with Gu Kun's crazy endorsement of Lanfang's tourism industry before and after the Olympics last year, his crazy involvement in the luxury local tycoon industry, and China's recent entry into the WTO, the completion of Lanfang's sailing hotel, Lanfang's tourist routes have almost doubled in the past two years.
The saturation rate of Runway 1 was already close to 70% when Iprasin came. Now it seems to be easily over 80%.
No wonder the Lanfang people started the construction of the airport's second runway in 2000 to ensure trial operation in 2003 and full commercial use in 2004. Now, the semi-finished product, which has only been repaired for more than a year, can also be used as an apron for other terminals.
The building and supporting facilities can also provide temporary rest for passengers while waiting. It is just a waste of deploying some battery cars for ferry transportation.
As for whether Runway 1 of Lanfang International Airport will be saturated during next year's window, foreigners don't have to worry - the internationally recognized air traffic control algorithm is to allow 200 to 220 takeoffs and landings per day for one runway.
Considered "full". However, some particularly busy airport runways are actually overloaded.
For example, the Heathrow Airport runway is overloaded with an average of 280 movements per day all year round, and occasionally the busiest limit can soar to 300 movements. The current so-called Lanfang International Airport is "reaching 80% full capacity", which is about 170 movements per day.
It will increase again next year and the year after that, to over 200 per day, or even 240/260, which can be safely overloaded. A new runway will be built in the future.
Looking at all this prosperity, especially the extra increase in prosperity in just half a month, Iprasin felt very unhappy in his heart, as if ten thousand drafts were rushing past.
He has been working on the concept of luxury tourism in the rich city in Dibba for three or four years. If you count from the time when he vaguely had the idea but lacked the resources to implement it, it would have been even longer.
When bragging privately to his own people, he often boasted, "Just two years after the disintegration of Lucia, I estimated that the future world will be dominated by Oceania, so there will be no more world-wide wars. We should develop high-end hedonistic attention."
Business".
But no one believed this kind of bragging, and no one cared about it. From the outside, it seemed that Gu Kun was the one who had the idea first, and it was indeed Gu Kun who was the first to build a new one in the world.
The concept of wealthy city. No matter from any objective perspective, Ipraxin's vision is one to three years behind Gu Kun.
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"There are 170 flights every day, and the occupancy rate is still so high. It seems to be generally above 80%, and there are many that are fully loaded. The mainstream A320 class has 150 seats each, and the average occupancy rate is 90%, including 130 people. There are also
Some 747-class ocean-going flights can carry more than twice the capacity of an A320, which is 300 people. Large passenger aircraft account for 20%, and 25,000 to 30,000 people come in and out of the airport every day.
The number of arrivals and departures is evenly divided, and there are nearly 15,000 new tourists every day. If we calculate the whole year according to the current level of prosperity, there will be 5 to 6 million air tourists in a year, not counting cruise ships.
.Why? We Diba people have been spending a lot of money on publicity for three or four years, but our performance is still far behind that of the Lanfang people? Is it because we were temporarily forcibly constructed in the desert?"
Sitting in his private plane, Iprasin became more and more irritable while waiting for the route. After hearing some information from his subordinates, he became more and more eager to fight Gu Kun with a real sword and a real gun.
However, the female secretary next to her was still refusing to open a certain pot. When Iprasin was irritated, he casually asked: "Do you know when Mr. Mahathir will leave?"
The female secretary told the truth: "Mr. Mahathir may have to play for one more week. He also advised us to investigate carefully before making a decision. Don't be arrogant. Listening to his meaning, it seems that he thinks that we have been efficient in burning money in the past two years."
Too low.”
Ipraxin's eyebrows jumped when he heard this.
Although everyone is in a money-burning business and is not afraid of burning money, there is also an efficiency in burning money. After the same amount of money is burned, the number of chips returned will be different.
Isn't that guy Mahathir having unfaithful thoughts and not putting all his eggs in one basket? Wouldn't that be a traitor? The Five Sacred Sword Sects have agreed to join forces!
"When you go back, keep a close eye on Gu Kun's dirty stuff, and be sure to dig out every flaw in Gu Kun's false prosperity campaign! If I have the chance, I'll treat Mahathir to tea and use eye drops!"