Lin Cheng has shown great interest in buying a private jet, and because of his global business, Lin Cheng will spend a large part of his life on the plane. Updates are the fastest

So in the long flight journey, being able to live safely and comfortably is not only a need for pretense, but also a rigid need to maintain a superior quality of life.

In fact, there are a lot of invisible rich people in my country, and their personal wealth may not be comparable to Lin Cheng, but there are definitely more than dozens of family wealth of more than 10 billion, but why are private jets rarely popular in China?

The reason is neither the high price of private jets nor the high cost of maintenance, but the strict control of flight navigation in our country.

According to the country's air traffic control regulations, if a private jet wants to fly, it must apply to the local airport for flight half a month in advance, so that the airport can make a route, otherwise it will not be allowed to take off.

After all, if you apply for navigation half a month in advance, it is not as convenient as buying a ticket for a civil aircraft a day or two in advance.

Lin Cheng's business activities have never been planned half a month in advance, and most of his trips are made on an ad hoc basis, so this navigation regulation is very unfavorable for him to buy a private jet to facilitate travel.

However, the national regulations are national regulations, and my country still has a special national situation, otherwise how did the four words "special affairs" come about?

With Lin Cheng's status and wealth today, as long as he donates some money to the airline or something, or asks Mr. Huo to say something for him, he can still easily open up the airline's world, and make special arrangements for Lin Cheng's private jet, at least advance the flight application from fifteen days in advance to one or two days, which should not be a big problem.

Lin Cheng was just a sling in his previous life, and he naturally hated the phenomenon of using privileges to break the rules, and he held a strong critical attitude.

But in this life, Lin Cheng has entered the privileged class, and he naturally will not use the privilege hypocritically, as long as this privilege does not harm the interests of ordinary people, Lin Cheng will use it with a clear conscience.

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Since Huaxia is a power-based country, Lin Cheng's coffee position in his own country is not very large, but in the capitalist world, Lin Cheng's coffee position is even bigger than that of ordinary heads of state.

When Liang Botao released the news that Lin Cheng wanted to buy a large civil airliner and transform it into a private flying palace, Boeing, the world's largest manufacturer of civil airliners, attached great importance to this list, and soon sent a sales manager named Thompson to Qingjiang to negotiate with Lin Cheng.

Thompson understands that the purchase of large airliners by private billionaires into flying palaces is likely to become a trend for the super-rich in the future, and Boeing must seize this opportunity to become a trendsetter in this wave.

Thompson said: "Mr. Lin needs a safe and comfortable large passenger aircraft, and in fact, Boeing has many models that can meet Mr. Lin's requirements.

However, I feel that there are three models that are more suitable to meet Mr. Lin's requirements, the first is the Boeing 737, the Boeing 737 model was produced in 1968, and it is a popular product that has sold more than 5,000 units around the world, and its safety performance has been tested for 31 years, and it is a very mature model. ”

Lin Cheng has made up for his knowledge of aircraft these days, and he still has a certain understanding of several Boeing aircraft, he interrupted Thompson's introduction, shook his head and said: "The history of Boeing 737 is too long, and it has no particularly obvious advantages compared with Airbus's A320, and the aircraft accident rate is much greater than that of Airbus A320, I don't see the need to buy this aircraft." ”

Thompson first proposed the Boeing 737, in fact, he didn't want Lin Cheng to buy the Boeing 737, but just to throw bricks for the Boeing 747 and 777 behind, after all, the Boeing 737 is too cheap, and the company can't make a lot of money.

Just hearing Lin Cheng's contempt for the Boeing 737 and his admiration for the competitor Airbus A320, Thompson couldn't help but retort: "Mr. Lin, it is unfair for you to compare the Airbus A320 with the Boeing 737, after all, the Boeing 737 has been in service since 1968, and the Airbus A320 has only been in service since 1988."

Every industry is constantly improving, but every progress comes at a price, and for the aviation industry, it is often a lot of money, time and human lives.

I believe that on the basis of the Boeing 737, the Airbus A320 series must have absorbed a lot of various mistakes made by the Boeing 737 in the past, and Boeing has slowly grown in the process, so the safety record of the later 737 series is much better. ”

Lin Cheng nodded, what Thompson said is true, in fact, in terms of safety performance, excluding the early 100 and 200 models of the 737, the accident rate of the 737 follow-up series models is not much different from that of the A320, and they are all aircraft with very high safety performance.

In terms of sales, the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 are the best-selling models in their respective companies, and these two aircraft are undoubtedly classic aircraft.

However, the times are advancing, and in terms of current technology, the Boeing 737 is obviously a little behind, and Lin Cheng is still more interested in the Boeing 747 and 777.

As a sales manager, Thompson naturally has a strong ability to read words and colors, and seeing that Lin Cheng is obviously not interested in the Boeing 737, he is too lazy to waste time on the Boeing 737, and then introduced: "The Boeing 747 is the world's first wide-body civil aircraft, and since it was put into service in 1970, for 29 years, the Boeing 747 has held the record for the world's highest passenger capacity.

Moreover, the Boeing 747 is also the favorite head of state aircraft used by heads of state, for example, the Boeing 747-200 is used by Air Force One, the presidential plane of our country, and the 747-400 is used by the cardinal of your country. ”

Lin Cheng was quite interested in this, and even the heads of state vied to use it, which is undoubtedly synonymous with safety, and he asked: "If I want to buy a Boeing 747-400, what is the approximate price?" ”

Thompson's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he knew that Lin Cheng was a little tempted by the Boeing 747, so he hurriedly said: "The price of the Boeing 747400 sold to the airline is 150 million US dollars, but if Mr. Lin buys it privately, Mr. Lin can take it for 120 million US dollars." However, if Mr. Lin requests a modification, the cost of the aircraft's transformation and decoration will be calculated separately. ”

Lin Cheng was noncommittal about this, but just smiled: "Mr. Thompson will introduce me to the Boeing 777 again, this aircraft was put into service in 1995, and it is said that because of the success of this aircraft, it saved your company from bankruptcy at that time?"

"That's true, the Boeing 777 has a round fuselage design, a total of 12 wheels on the main landing gear, and the largest engine diameter of any airliner," Thompson laughs.

The company invested a lot of resources in the development of 777, the second big gamble in the company's history after 747, and if it failed, the company could not escape the fate of bankruptcy.

Thankfully, the Boeing 777 turned out to be a successful aircraft, otherwise Mr. Lin wouldn't have seen me today. ”