It's no wonder that Song Changzheng couldn't say a word, but he was really choosing a regional airliner, and the airlines were doing a little bit of a loss.

At that time, the 50-seat regional airliner derived from the advanced light transport platform of Tengfei Group had been determined and approved by the domestic expert group, hoping to compete for the order of 14 regional airliners of domestic airlines.

As a result, several airlines evaluated and found that Ascendas' regional airliner rolled off the assembly line later than expected, and used a large number of new technologies, and the maturity level had yet to be verified, so they were kicked out in the first round of review.

Instead, they set their sights on foreign countries, hoping to introduce a mature and reliable regional airliner model.

After all, the advanced light transport platform at that time was only a self-developed project of the Tengfei Group, and many things were not perfect and normal, and there was nothing to say if it was not favored, not to mention that this is not the first time that the advanced light transport platform has hit a wall, and it has been hit in the air force and navy before that.

If those airlines can introduce a popular aircraft, it is okay to maintain the advantage while keeping the operating costs low.

As a result, I don't know what kind of style the leaders of several airlines are pumping, so many regional airliners are not in the position, and they actually choose the BAe-146 produced by British Aerospace Corporation.

An alternative model with less than 100 seats but four turbofan engines.

It is important to know that in the operation of the aircraft, the maintenance cost of the engine should account for more than forty percent of the overall maintenance cost, because of this, airlines favor twin-engine long-range passenger aircraft, because compared with other aircraft, this type of aircraft has low maintenance cost and high efficiency.

This is also an important reason why when the aero engine breakthrough, the Boeing-777 and Boeing-787 twin-engine wide-body passenger aircraft swept the market, while the giant A380 four-engine large passenger aircraft collapsed.

In fact, the maintenance cost of the two is not in the same order of magnitude.

The same principle applies to regional airliners, double-engine regional airliners are definitely more cost-effective than four-engine regional airliners, and the result is such a thing that even entry-level novices in aviation know, and the leaders of several airlines actually ignored it without warning.

The key is that the BAe-146 regional airliner is not a best-seller, the production and supply of spare parts are not sufficient, and even some key accessories need special customization, and they are completely dependent on imports, which further pushes up the operating costs of BAe-146.

Of course, this is not bad, after all, when it was introduced in the mid-eighties, the domestic trade relations with the West were not bad, but by the end of the eighties, the international situation was turbulent, although British Aerospace still fulfilled the contract, but in the supply of spare parts was intermittent, resulting in a very low BAe-146 intact rate, once again pushing up the operating costs, not to mention, air accidents caused by failures occurred from time to time, which led to the entire fleet in a semi-grounded state.

From the introduction in 1986 to the semi-grounded state in the early nineties, the whole process was only five years, and the fleet exchanged for a huge amount of foreign exchange was lying on its back, which naturally attracted the attention of many parties.

As a result, the leaders of several airlines retreated and retreated, and it was in this context that Song Changzheng took over as the general manager of United Airlines.

However, because of the previous adjustment storm, the entire business philosophy tends to be conservative, and they began to tighten their investment in regional airliners and focus on the operation of mainline airliners that make steady profits without losing money.

Anyway, the domestic aviation market is not perfect, many places do not even have airports, and regional airliners are not very useful, so why bother to cause trouble in one move?

What if one is bad and is put in a pit?

Yes, the leaders of the previous airlines were indeed cheated, they did want to find a cost-effective regional airliner, and selected a lot of models around the world, but the price was a little unsatisfactory, at this time British Aerospace came over with BAe-146 and reported it to domestic airlines at an unbelievably low price.

After that, it is necessary to say, cheap is not good, good goods are not cheap, although it cannot be generalized, but in some aspects there is still some truth, especially for aviation products, as the so-called penny is worth the goods, it is really not just talking.

"Xiaozhuang, what about this, you let me say, I can't say anything, you also know that because of the BAe-146 matter, the right to purchase aircraft was taken back by the Civil Aviation Administration, and you let me buy the plane......"

I don't know how long it took, Song Changzheng finally sighed, opened the skylight with his hands outstretched, and said brightly: "I really don't have this power." ”

"Old Song, don't take it to heart, I just feel aggrieved and say a few angry words. ”

Seeing that Song Changzheng became serious, Zhuang Jianye smiled, just like what he said just now, he picked up the kettle and poured a glass of water for Director Song, and said with a smile: "The matter of purchasing aircraft, I am just fighting for it, and it will be successful, it doesn't matter if I don't succeed, we can't hurt the harmony, right?"

Song Changzheng was a little stunned, and said in his heart Who just pulled out such a serious topic, and with that posture of asking the teacher for guilt, he almost ran directly to the central government to sue the emperor.

Outcome...... Just changed your face like that?

"I have a bad heart, Xiaozhuang, if you have any bad ideas, just say it, don't be surprised and toss me as an old man. Song Changzheng didn't have the intention of playing a roller coaster with Zhuang Jianye, and directly made his words clear.

Zhuang Jianye didn't care, he smiled: "You can't be the master of the whole machine, can you do the accessories?"

"Accessories?" As soon as he heard these two words, Song Changzheng was like an artificial intelligence activated by the current, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Zhuang'er~~ Can you get accessories?"

"Let's talk about whether you can call the shots. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. Song Changzheng nodded like pounding garlic, then leaned down and looked at Zhuang Jianye with a chrysanthemum-like old face: "Zhuang~~ Where did your accessories come from? Are they original from Europe and the United States or imitations from Canada and Brazil?"

"Domestic take-off manufacturing!" Zhuang Jianye did not hesitate.

When Song Changzheng heard this, he looked Zhuang Jianye up and down for a while, and then exclaimed: "You made it yourself?"

"Don't tell me, you guys still have time to pick and choose from the planes. ”

"No, I said Xiaozhuang, those things are not ordinary things, they are airplanes, if you don't get it right, it will kill you!" After Song Changzheng understood, his head shook like a rattle, aircraft accessories can't be a joke, even if it is difficult to import accessories now, and the fleet maintenance rate is poor, but you can't fool around in this regard, what if something happens?

Seeing Song Changzheng's resolute attitude, Zhuang Jianye still wanted to say something, but he heard a rush of footsteps outside the door, obviously something happened, after all, it was during the exercise, and he was afraid of 10,000 just in case, so Zhuang Jianye and Director Song glanced at each other, and Song Changzheng, who was close to the door, immediately stood up and pulled the door open, blocking an officer and asking, "What's wrong?"

The officer knew Song Changzheng and said anxiously: "There is a civil airliner that has broken down, and we have to prepare for the airport to be diverted." ”