Connie Akarin arrived at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport at 10 a.m. on the 11th, and after taking his luggage to the hotel, he didn't have time to rest, just had a hasty lunch, and went to the Lee Mansion to visit Li Guangyu.

This time, he knew that it would be useless to go to Zhao Wenhua, president of the Xiangjiang Air Transport Group, and the decision was in the hands of Li Guangyu, and only if Li Guangyu changed his mind, their Boeing company would have a chance to win the order.

After arriving at the front desk of the Lee Building, he said to the front desk executive: "Hello, I am Connie Akarin, Vice President of Boeing, and I hope to visit Mr. Li Guangyu, please report." ”

"Hello sir, do you have an appointment?"

"I didn't make an appointment, but I am good friends with Mr. Li Guangyu, you report it, I am sure he will meet me. ”

How did the front desk administrative staff not know the origin of Connie Akalin, as employees of the Li consortium, especially they are located in the headquarters, they are very concerned about the affairs of the consortium, this time the airline ordered sixty planes in Airbus, Boeing is estimated to be in a hurry, so the vice president will hurriedly come over to visit Li Sheng, and even came here rashly without making an appointment.

The front desk administrator said: "Mr. Akalin, I'm really sorry, our Li Sheng will fly to Japan tomorrow, so we didn't come to work in the building this afternoon, you want to visit Li Sheng, and please come back another day." ”

Connie Akalin listened to Li Guangyu's absence, and was very anxious in his heart, if he couldn't meet Li Guangyu for a long time, then the order of Xiangjiang Airlines would be completely lost with their Boeing.

He hurriedly asked, "Then did you Li Sheng say when he would return to Xiangjiang, I hope to be able to meet him as soon as possible." ”

"Sir, we don't know much about this, but Miss Gan Qin has just announced that Li Sheng, Yuan Sheng, Miss Li, Miss Zhang, Shi Sheng, Zhao Sheng and other presidents will go to Vancouver the day after tomorrow, and then they will visit Mexico and Brazil, which is estimated to be at least ten days and half a month. ”

Connie Akalin knew that if he didn't meet with Lee Kuang-woo at this time, it was estimated that he would never have a chance again this year, and from the place where Lee Kwang-woo was going to visit, it was obvious that he was going for American companies.

With so many presidents visiting this time, they will never just go to these places for a passing motion. Once the Lee consortium takes root in these places, the impact on American companies will be very large.

If the Lee consortium and the Japanese consortium were allowed to occupy their American markets, and they did not drag down the Soviet Union economically, they would have been economically eliminated by the Japanese consortium and the Lee consortium first.

At this time, he wanted to see Li Guangyu, but it was probably unlikely, and he didn't know where Li Guangyu was in the afternoon.

After bidding farewell to the front desk executives, he immediately went to Heung Kong Air Transport Group to meet with Zhao Wenhua, the president of the group, hoping to get some good news here.

At the headquarters of Heung Kong Air Transport Group, Connie Akalin did not eat behind closed doors like in the Li Building, and met Zhao Wenhua very smoothly.

In the reception area of the president's office, Zhao Wenhua politely asked: "Mr. Akalin, I haven't seen you for more than a year, I don't know what happened to your sudden visit this time?"

Regarding Zhao Wenhua's knowingly question, Connie Akarin still responded politely to Zhao Wenhua's question, who said that this time Boeing was in a hurry to ask to see the Li consortium.

Connie Akarin is quite dissatisfied with the practices of some groups, so that they have guaranteed the interests of these companies, but who will compensate Boeing for the loss of profits, hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, how can he be willing.

To make matters worse, this is a disguised push of its own important customers to its rivals, and Airbus has the profits from these orders, and invests in the research and development of new technologies, which will put more and more pressure on Boeing.

He had already received news that Airbus began to develop an ultra-long-range civil airliner three years ago, in order to offset the advantages of their Boeing 747 and compete with Boeing in all aspects.

Now that the research has entered the final stage, if all goes well, it will be able to test fly next year and be put on the market by the end of '86.

At that time, in terms of ultra-long-haul, they Boeing will no longer be a monopoly, Airbus has never lacked technology, with the support of many countries in Western Europe, Akarin does not think that their aircraft development will fail.

If he can't let the Lee consortium continue to maintain cooperation with Boeing, then in the future, Heung Kong Airlines is likely to be an all-Airbus airline, and Boeing will completely withdraw from the historical stage of Heung Kong Airlines.

This is definitely not what Connie Akarin wants to see, a top global airline, and without a Boeing airliner, it would be a huge blow to Boeing.

He said like Zhao Wenhua: "Mr. Zhao, according to the news I have learned, your airline plans to purchase 60 aircraft, including 30 passenger and 30 cargo, I know that your company's routes are basically transnational routes, and there is more demand for ultra-long-range aircraft, I think our Boeing 747 series is more suitable for you, what do you think?"

Zhao Wenhua naturally hopes that airlines will have a large number of ultra-long-range passenger aircraft, so that the company can arrange aircraft flight routes more calmly, but this time it is not only a matter of choosing aircraft, the US government has already targeted the Lee consortium, how can he shamelessly buy Boeing planes at this time.

Although the strength of the Li consortium is not too strong now, it still has its own backbone, and the Li consortium will definitely not become the follower of the American consortium, let alone kneel to survive.

Until the United States lifts its crackdown on the Lee consortium's products, their airline will never purchase a Boeing passenger plane.

Zhao Wenhua has received the news that Li Guangyu is ready to order a special plane from Airbus to replace the current Boeing special plane, in order to show the attitude of the Li consortium.

Zhao Wenhua said: "Thank you for your attention to our company, but our airline has signed a purchase agreement with Airbus, the current fleet size has met the development of the next few years, our company has no demand for new aircraft for the time being, Boeing has always been an important partner of our group, there is a need for development in the future, I will definitely give priority to you Boeing." ”

Connie Akarin was extremely frustrated and disappointed in his heart, this time they Boeing didn't have any chance, as for Zhao Wenhua's later polite words, he didn't believe it at all.

If the important partners will not be connected to Boeing without notifying them, they have reached a plane purchase agreement with Airbus, and they will be given priority to Boeing in the future, which is just a polite remark, as long as the relationship between the Lee consortium and the United States does not improve, then they Boeing do not want to get a purchase order for Hong Kong Airlines.

Connie Akalin said: "Mr. Zhao, please tell Mr. Li that the government and Congress have nothing to do with our Boeing in raising tariffs on your Bentley Group's cars and Phoenix mobile phones, and I hope that Mr. Li can take into account our long-term cooperation and friendship, and do not treat our Boeing differently, our Boeing is far superior to Airbus in terms of quality, price and applicability, and is more suitable for the needs of Xiangjiang Airlines." ”

Although Akalin knew that saying this would not be of much use, he still hoped that Zhao Wenhua would spread this word to Li Guangyu, hoping to win a glimmer of life for them Boeing, and he very much did not want Boeing to lose two big customers, Heung Kong Airlines and Cathay Pacific.

Before this incident, Boeing had an advantage over Airbus in the two major companies, focusing on their ultra-long-range aircraft, which was in considerable demand by Heungair and Cathay Pacific.

If it weren't for the British influence in Hong Kong, the Lee consortium would have purchased some Airbus planes for some interests, but I am afraid that Hong Kong Airlines would purchase all of their Boeing passenger planes.

This time, the U.S. government and the consortium behind it made Boeing completely lose the business of these two airlines.

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