Chapter 1750 Ready to Go

"Bo..."

The cork of the champagne was pushed open by a huge force, and a stream of foam came out.

What followed immediately was a burst of enthusiastic applause, as well as the smug smiles of a group of wealthy people.

Although opening champagne can be more gentle, such as the "lady's sigh" technique that a certain forehead lady said is indeed more stylish, but many times when opening champagne, what you care about is the surging excitement.

Just like eating hot pot, although there are mandarin duck pots, only hot pot that is spicy and spicy can be considered a real hot pot.

The person who opened the champagne was Yin Jun.

The location is in an office building in Central. There are five floors above and below, all belonging to the newly established company - Dragonair.

It's not that Yin Jun wants to be in the limelight, so he pops the champagne and thinks he is the most powerful person in the company.

In fact, he doesn't like such big scenes at all.

But Dragonair's group of major shareholders are all old men. It's really difficult for them to open the champagne.

Compared with the previous designs, the established Dragonair has undergone many changes.

First of all, the investors and proportions are very different from the previous life.

Dragonair, with a total registered capital of HK$5 billion, has a total of 9 shareholders.

Among them, seven companies, including Huo's Foundation, Cheung Kong Group, Wharf, Cao's Textiles, Hopewell Group, New World Development and Kirin Group, each invested HK$500 million, accounting for 70% of the shares.

The remaining 15% belongs to the China Merchants and Commercial Bureau, and the remaining 15% belongs to the Derun Group.

A group of local businessmen in Xiangjiang account for 70% of the shares, and domestic companies account for 30%. This proportion is somewhat unexpected, especially the Xiangjiang government.

They originally thought that with the personalities of Yin Jun and others, they would definitely let the mainland take the majority.

Unexpectedly, according to internal information, Yin Jun was so tough, claiming that "the airline can only be controlled by the people of Xiangjiang", and the result was indeed the case. Xiangjiang Chinese Company held the controlling stake with an overwhelming advantage.

This is why the Xiangjiang government approved it so quickly.

Many people can't understand Yin Jun, thinking, isn't he a fanatic who is close to the mainland? Why are you separated from the mainland now?

However, Yin Jun never mentioned this matter, and it was naturally impossible for Mr. Huo and the chartering king to tell it, so outsiders naturally had no way of knowing.

China Merchants Bureau and Derun Group must feel a little uncomfortable, but facing Yin Jun, especially Yin Jun who is now the richest man in the world, they dare not complain even a word.

The top few bosses have directly told their managers that they must fully cooperate with Yin Jun so that he can devote more enthusiasm to attracting investment and construction in the mainland. Come on, nothing can go wrong.

What else could they do if they were talking about something like this?

It can only be that after Xiangjiang made a request for share distribution, it readily agreed.

What's more, this is not without its benefits.

The seven companies in Hong Kong did not send personnel to control Dragonair.

On the contrary, they sent no one, all airline staff hired and poached from outside.

Dragonair adopts a manager-responsibility system. Tang Entai, the vice chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways who was poached, has been praised repeatedly in the industry. Basically, he has a share of the credit for the expansion of Cathay Pacific Airways in recent years.

In order to lure him over, Dragonair paid him HK$3 million in contract compensation alone.

Although the cost was high, the effects of Tang Entai's visit were immediate.

He first set up the company's framework. In just three months, hundreds of employees and 14 units were completely set up.

Tang Entai certainly couldn't exert his energy on such a big matter as applying for a flight route, but in the process of contacting major airports, he achieved great results.

The destination airport for the route applied by Dragonair, with Tang Entai's active contact and negotiation, has agreed to allow Dragonair flights to take off, land and dock at relatively favorable prices and conditions.

The title of the world's richest man is still very useful.

The opening of flight routes, which has been actively negotiated, has also received results one after another.

The Asian region is the best for negotiation.

Six cities, namely Huajing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok and Singapore, had already issued flight route permits in July.

The farthest of these four cities is Singapore, which takes about 7 hours to fly, and the rest are generally within a 5-hour flight.

Flight route permits for four European and American routes, including London in the United Kingdom, Paris in France, and New York and Los Angeles in the United States, were all issued in early September.

In other words, since the establishment of Dragonair, it has been able to operate only 8 routes.

Despite just a few words of introduction, 10 routes have already been successful. In fact, this group of wealthy people in Xiangjiang have spent a lot of energy on this.

In particular, Charter King and Yin Jun, as two of the most well-connected super-rich people overseas, had no idea how many connections they had relied on and how much effort and money they spent to complete the public relations.

But these are valuable.

At least once these 10 domestic and international routes are released, Xiangjiang is basically connected to many important international cities, and subsequent transfers are also convenient.

The value of Dragonair has been fully reflected. It will not be in the dilemma of having only one route to Malaysia for several years after it was opened in the previous life.

With a population of more than six million in Xiangjiang alone, it is definitely not possible to support such 10 lines.

Everyone knows that Dragonair's largest customer group is from the mainland.

Since the reform and opening up in the mainland, they have been communicating more and more with the outside world, and more and more foreigners are going to the mainland.

As a window bridge between the mainland and the world, Xiangjiang will undoubtedly play a major role in the field of air passenger transportation.

This is also an important traffic pulse that the mainland can remotely control.

The leaders of China Merchants Bureau and Derun stated at the company's preparatory meeting that they should try their best to open international flight routes. There is no need to be afraid of losses on this route. They will have ways to make up for it.

The mainland must be thinking that the more flights to all parts of the world, the more foreign businessmen will come to China to investigate and invest.

Even if there is one more person, it is a huge improvement, so this line of communication must not be broken, even if it means losing money, it must be maintained.

As for losing money, they will not let the seven richest people in Xiangjiang suffer losses, which is why they made their previous statements.

This is why several shareholders agreed with Yin Jun’s generous decision to develop 10 routes.

The four most important aspects for airlines.

Routes, airports, crews and aircraft.

The first three aspects are relatively easy to solve and do not cost much.

But the last plane requires real money to buy.

Today's world airlines basically only look at Boeing.

Although Airbus was established in 1970, their aircraft manufacturing foundation is too weak and cannot compare with the super giant Boeing.

Even 40 years later, although Airbus is developing well, its annual losses of billions of euros still give the EU a headache.

However, Boeing has been consolidating its path to the throne and has remained at the top of the world's aircraft manufacturing industry with no intention of stepping down.

Boeing's most classic aircraft is naturally the 747 series.

This aircraft series, which has been delivered since 1970, is still in production until 2020, which shows its stability and practicality.

Even the models behind it, the 757 and 767, were discontinued after more than 20 years. The fact that the 747 can be used for so long has great advantages.

It's just that airplanes don't mean that if you go there with money today, the airplane will be flown to you tomorrow.

Generally, the manufacturing period of an aircraft is between 12 months and 30 months. The larger the aircraft, the longer it will take.

For a large aircraft like the 747, the two-year production cycle is short.

But if you ask Dragonair to place an order now and start operating it two years later, that's just a joke.

So they bought used planes.

Those airlines with deep pockets frequently change aircraft in order to maintain their strong image and flying capabilities.

For example, in this era, Northwest Airlines of the United States, ANA of Japan, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, etc.

The aircraft they replaced were kept in the warehouse, waiting for smaller airlines to purchase them. Anyway, they were in pretty good condition, and they were cheap and high-quality, making them suitable for airlines without much budget.

Most of Dragonair's 5 billion capital was spent on the purchase of 10 aircraft.

Tang Entai also knows these aspects very well. In July and August, he flew all over the world and purchased 6 747-100 aircraft and 4 747-200M aircraft in good condition for the company.

The average value of the 747-100 aircraft is around US$41 million. They have been in service for eight years. These six aircraft carry 366 passengers and have a cruising range of 9,800 kilometers. They are used to fly six routes in Asia.

The purchase price of the 747-200M aircraft is US$62 million. It has been in service for 6 years, has a passenger capacity of 350 people, a cruising range of 12,600 kilometers, and can fly directly to 4 routes in Europe and the United States.

Don’t think that buying a second-hand aircraft is too expensive. The original prices of both types of aircraft are already very expensive.

The 747-100 costs US$180 million, and the 200M costs US$270 million. Compared with the price 30 years later, they are not much cheaper.

This is also due to the lack of competitors. Even if you look at the high price, you have to buy it, otherwise the airline will not be able to operate.

In mid-September, these planes arrived in Hong Kong one after another and were stored at Kai Tak Airport.

With the arrival of the aircraft, it was natural and logical that Dragonair was officially launched!