Chapter 77: Expanding the Fleet
But at this time, Liu Fei found that his fleet was too small, the number of planes was only a hundred, and they were all small planes like FCA610, mainly flying... The total number of large aircraft such as the Boeing 767 does not exceed ten, which seriously affects Liu's aviation operating income.
In addition to two oversized business jets, Liu Fei's fleet consists of only four Boeing 767s, two Boeing 777s and two Airbus A330s. These planes are still a little smaller, and they can't meet Liu Feiyue's bigger and bigger stalls.
Liu's Aviation Airport Group, which could not even be a small plane, has now become a hard-to-find airline, and Liu Fei's method is very simple, that is, to follow British Airways.
British Airways operates a vast fleet of more than 280 aircraft, all of which are new and functionally similar to other airlines. So how did British Airways win?
There are three ways for British Airways to win: Dot:
First, strict training of aircrews and ground crews to avoid human error as much as possible, and a strict selection system ensures that aircrews and ground crews are all elites in the industry. Elite personnel can let more passengers come and take the plane, and they can get more profits, and if they get more profits, they will naturally be able to hire more elite talents. This is a good virtuous circle, which is what Liu Fei did at the beginning.
When Liu Fei's airline was first established, the personnel could be described as mixed, and it could even be said that a group of employees of state-owned enterprises were found, and sometimes some of them did not even listen to the orders of the captains who were younger than them. A large part of these people are Liu Fei from the country. After a very serious rectification, everything is much better, at least these people who don't listen to orders have either changed or been kicked out by Liu Fei.
Second, the maintenance of his own aircraft is very strict, and even needs to be planned every minute and second, which is not what Liu Fei needs to do, this is what Liu Fei's maintenance manager is responsible for. At the same time, an aircraft needs to be repaired, and one of the other aircraft needs to be found so that it is not too late. The manager of the operation department needs to be responsible for this matter, which is also very important to Liu Fei.
Compared with other domestic airlines, which are often delayed by half a point or even a few points, Liu's Airlines will hardly be late, at most only five minutes late and the like, which is unavoidable, because the reasons for these delays are all the pot of air traffic control.
Third, luxury service, now so many airlines, even if the flight routes are different, but there are only so many planes. The decoration of these aircraft is already the most advanced, so there is no gap in the decoration, only from the service team to find the gap.
Under the supervision of the logistics manager, all things in Liu's Aviation are up-to-date, of course, as long as there are no small scratches, they are considered up-to-date. The chefs of the first-class service are also the chefs from the major hotels, and the first-class food is freshly made in the sky; Business class and economy class are served by flight attendants who warm up the food packed from the ground in the sky, and the food packed on the ground comes from major hotels.
Of all the things, Liu Fei dare not say that it is the first in the world, at least the first-class Liu Fei still dares to guarantee that the funds spent by Liu's Airlines on these things every year are definitely not less than 1.3 billion US dollars, accounting for more than one-third of all budgets. You must know that Liu's aviation's total annual operating income is only six billion US dollars, and after spending so much, Liu Fei is just to retain those high-quality customers.
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Now Liu Fei needs to expand his fleet in large quantities, on the one hand, he can use bank loans to buy from Boeing Airbus, and on the other hand, he should place orders from Liu's Airlines. Now the international aviation industry is sluggish. Soft, the number of orders is relatively small, Liu Fei needs to order his own aircraft to keep himself still running at high speed, otherwise Liu Fei needs to cut staff.
Liu Fei now has FCA610-100, FCA610-200, FCA610-200F, FCA610-300, FCA611-200, FCA611-200F as short-range regional aircraft, or routes with relatively small numbers and short distances. Now Liu Fei has access to 42 finished planes of various types, and these planes have no buyers, but Liu Fei has produced them and parked them on the tarmac of the aircraft assembly plant.
As for the long-range mainline aircraft, Liu Fei has FCA800-100, FCA800-200, FCA800-200F, FCA800-300, FCA810-100, FCA810-200, FCA810-200F, FCA810-300, FCA2819-200. The last is a supersonic trunk aircraft, which is more suitable for Liu Fei to strengthen his influence. Liu Fei can now mobilize 32 aircraft, four of which are supersonic aircraft, and supersonic aircraft can make Liu Fei's Liu Aviation even more popular.
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Liu Fei quickly put the funds out of his left hand and put them in his right pocket, and then got seventy-four good planes manufactured by Liu's Aviation, and now it was time for Liu Fei to expand his aviation personnel. But Liu Fei encountered a very painful thing below: he couldn't find a pilot.
The pilots of the flower growers are generally fighter pilots or bomber pilots who have retired from the army, and they are rarely pilots formed by the airlines themselves, which also restricts the development of aviation schools. In addition, most of the airspace of the flower planter is military, so it is rare for aviation schools to develop well.
So Liu Fei tragically found that the number of pilots was insufficient, but there was no way to replenish it from China.
Now Liu Fei has met two groups of people, one is from foreign pilot hiring companies, they think Liu Fei can hire a group of foreign pilots, anyway, this is what the world's airlines will do. No airline has the time and energy to spend twenty years or more developing a captain.
Then international employment is very normal, in fact, many airlines have pilots who are not from their home countries. Person.
But Liu Fei does not think that foreign .. People are really so kind, so Liu Fei saw another part of the people.
These people are from China, these people are from various domestic airlines, and they seem to be "experienced in flying". But Liu Fei believes that the information of these people is not credible, because these people... They were all about thirty years old, and the oldest was only thirty-six years old. Although this is indeed in line with Liu Fei's "younger crew", it is too young. Liu Fei thinks that these people are a bit too young, these people are all people with Boeing 747, Airbus A340 or Airbus A380 driving qualifications. But Liu Fei thinks that the qualifications of these people are more like forgeries, and it is impossible to have so many young captains.
However, Liu Fei still communicated with the country to see what tricks these people were playing.