Chapter 8 Aircraft Purchase
As a staunch nuclear equalizer .. Righteous, this comic uses commas to ensure that there will be no large-scale war scenes in this volume, in order to maintain the world's nuclear peace, let us support Liu Fei in his comic No. 1 plan~~~
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But he said that Liu Fei had done this, and after ordering Victor to prepare for fish farming, Liu Fei planned to go to the United States. The country buys a few planes, Liu Fei needs the plane for Lufthansa Container Airlines, Liu Fei plans to fill the fleet with Boeing 777F, and Nordic Airlines should also take advantage of the current purchase of a few planes to expand the fleet.
Although Liu Fei does not plan to expand his ranch to the world, he still needs to sell it to the outside world. Sell these things to a country. The sales of home are often thousands of tons, so that it is not possible to come one plane at a time, Liu Fei needs to order some cargo planes and then transform these cargo planes into space cargo planes.
This is Liu Fei's second goal, and for Liu Fei, the second goal is very important.
But Liu Fei's first goal is to buy a large business jet, and the trenches in the Middle East now buy Airbus A380 as a business jet, because this is the world's largest civil airliner (except for the An-225), and the design of the four engines makes this aircraft very safe.
Liu Fei can't buy the A380 because the plane is too big, and it's too dazzling, which doesn't fit the low-key style of Liu Fei and other family owners. What Liu Fei needs is Boeing's latest Boeing 747-8 modified business jet - B. BJ-747。
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The international aviation industry is not very bullish, and now Boeing and Airbus, the two traditional large aircraft manufacturers, have a lot of aircraft in their hands, which gives Liu Fei a good opportunity to expand his fleet. Big airlines always have a lot of spare pilots, and it's very easy to find a few pilots. After Liu Fei's investigation, Scandinavian Airlines and Lufthansa, as well as its subordinate airlines such as Austrian Airlines and Swiss Airlines, combined have 1.5 times the number of pilots required for aircraft. The number of these pilots can be further expanded, which will require the United Kingdom and other countries. Aviation enthusiasts at home and retired military pilots have done a good job of communication.
Liu Fei is the standard hands-off shopkeeper, such an annoying thing is of course done by Victor.
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As soon as Boeing heard that the big customer was coming, it was immediately interested, and now there are a lot of unowned planes in Boeing, and these green planes are parked on the tarmac and rusty, which is simply a great waste of resources.
The two men soon bonded, and Boeing's conference hall became a negotiating room. The two sides exchanged a lot of experience on the purchase of aircraft, and Liu Fei knew that his Scandinavian Airlines fleet had 23 McDonnell Douglas MD-82s and 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-87s, which were all old aircraft. Lufthansa Container Air has 17 MD-11s, and these last century freighters are old enough that they sometimes even sound some inexplicable alarms. Not only for Liu Fei, but for all pilots, it's time to let these planes play their spare time.
Boeing understood, at least 17 Boeing 777Fs and 25 Boeing small planes at this time. This small aircraft is generally the Boeing 737NG series, and the most likely is the Boeing 737-700 or Boeing 737-800 model.
Liu Fei very happily signed an order for 17 Boeing 777F, of which 12 Boeing 777 have been manufactured, and after about two months of modification, they can be put into operation, and the rest will be delivered within a year.
In addition, there are 28 Boeing 737-800 orders, six of which are ready for immediate delivery, four remaining that can be converted with 737-700s, and many of the rest that can be delivered quickly.
In the end, Liu Fei submitted a plan for the transformation of cargo planes for a total of 42 aircraft, and Liu Fei planned to have these aircraft uniformly replaced with newer, fuel-efficient engines, which would not be rear-mounted (referring to the MD-82 and MD-87), but would be hoisted under the wings. It was then replaced with a new LCD display and a series of modern cockpit modifications. These modifications include ECAM modifications, and the new modifications will not have paper inspections on the aircraft. Checklist, but a new tablet system.
[In fact, MD-80/82/85/90/95 and DC-9 are a series, this series is under a single wing, it is impossible to hang under the wing, but in this book, you can do it.] Don't take it that seriously, after all, this is the world of fiction. 】
When he was about to check out, Liu Fei suddenly asked, "Does your company have any Boeing 747s that are idle?" ”
The president of Boeing noted that now Boeing 747 has two 400 models and one 8 models free, and there are no buyers. So Liu Fei chose the 8 model, and then took out the decoration drawings designed before and handed them to Boeing.
In the end, Liu Fei found that it cost $9.2 billion. However, in order to develop more smoothly and unhindered in the next step, Liu Fei endured.
In view of the fact that Liu Fei helped Boeing solve such a big difficulty, Boeing promised to update the configuration of all Lufthansa Boeing 737-300s and all Boeing 737-500s of Nordic Airlines for free.
However, Boeing would never know that Liu Fei quickly found their old rival Airbus as soon as he went out.
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After Liu flew to Airbus, he learned very calmly about the operation status of his company. The company appears to be a state-owned company owned by Britain, Spain, France and Germany, but in fact Airbus is the property of the old duke, and the main supporters of these properties are the laboratory on the Z floor of the family basement, which has everything, and most of the Airbus aircraft are designed in the laboratory.
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Liu Fei's order for aircraft is very large, including 12 A330-300, 28 A320 family aircraft, in addition to ordering four A340-600 that have been discontinued on the tarmac, this is an old aircraft, because of poor performance was kicked out of production, but Liu Fei plans to convert these four old aircraft into space cargo planes and then into his own fleet, so that these aircraft can serve as long-range transportation missions. Now there is no shortage of people in themselves, and now what they lack is enough planes.
Liu Fei thinks that although he is not as powerful as Qatar Airways in the Middle East, at least he is much better than Delta Air Lines, which is known as the "35-year-old new aircraft". And this also helps to digest the excess capacity of their own industries, even if these routes cannot be opened up in the end, they can also change these aircraft into space cargo planes.
International passenger aviation may have reached a bottleneck period, but cargo aviation will never be too much, as long as Liu Fei's method is very appropriate, I believe that international companies that need to transport urgent goods will choose European United Container Shipping Company.
And Liu Fei also tried to get the symbol of British aviation, British Airways, through the British royal family, and then abandoned Air France. (Air France specializes in Airbus, South Korea specializes in Boeing ~~~ British Airways saves Boeing, Big Yellow Wolf saves Airbus, and Air Canada saves ~~~) In this way, the formation of a European aviation alliance is absolutely very explosive in the world. These are the world's major airlines, except for United Airlines and China Coast, and then some trenches are removed, which are these airlines.
However, now Liu Fei still needs to continue to lay out, and he will not be able to close the net in a big way until he can harvest.