Chapter 103: Charter Flight
At the beginning of May, Hong Kong also entered the rainy season. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
A Boeing 737 airliner with a blue Pan Am logo painted on its tail and a huge blue panam on its fuselage swooped down in the pouring rain and landed on the runway of Kai Tak International Airport.
A boarding car sped fast in the rain and approached the airliner in pursuit.
In the flight attendant lounge, a blonde flight attendant loosened her seat belt, quickly tidied up her appearance with her portable makeup case, and entered the business class with a soft smile, reminding the passengers in the cabin that the plane had arrived at its destination, and waiting for the cabin door to open, everyone could get off the plane.
At the end of the business class is the first class cabin of the passenger plane.
Every flight attendant who often flies international routes knows very well that the price of first-class tickets is only 1.5 times higher than that of economy class, but in order to increase the passenger load rate, airlines will enjoy discounts on air tickets for economy class if they book tickets in advance, and the highest discount rate on this route even reaches 4% off.
But first class is never discounted!
Come and go, the difference between the first class and economy class fares is up to six times!
Moreover, the number of first-class seats is limited, and the passengers who can buy first-class tickets are either rich or expensive. The identity is slightly worse, at least the boss of a company, or an executive of a well-known company, and he can't afford to offend him, not to mention that there is a distinguished passenger on this flight, and his identity is even more special.
The blonde stewardess adjusted her breathing, knocked on the door, and opened.
Compared to the cramped economy class, the first class cabin is much more spacious, with only eight seats in the front and rear rows. But if you want to say how luxurious, it's not necessarily that the seats are a little wider: the economy class has to accommodate six passengers per row, and the first class has only four people, and the leather seats in the card box style have a certain amount of privacy. The spacing between the rows is also large, so passengers can lie down comfortably when the brackets are extended.
Each passenger also has a separate large-screen color TV to relieve the loneliness of the journey.
The blonde stewardess opened the cabin door and found that the passengers in the cabin had already packed their belongings and were quietly looking out the window, with a hint of scrutiny and curiosity in their eyes. Seeing the stewardess come in, several passengers nodded politely to her, and then turned their heads to look at the front row.
The stewardess took a few quick steps and crossed the back row.
Of the four seats in the front row, only the two seats on the right are occupied, and the two seats on the left are reserved for young East Asian passengers with the same Chinese face. He was wearing a snow-white shirt, a blue striped tie, a small head, a cleanly shaved beard, and even in the soft leather seats, his waist was straight and his expression was serious. The traveler didn't seem to notice that the plane had landed, still intently flipping through a stack of papers, his brow furrowed slightly, as if contemplating.
The stewardess stared at him for a second or two, then leaned down, put it to his ear, and whispered, "Mr. Guan, the plane has arrived at Hong Kong's Kai Tak International Airport." ā
"Really? Thank you. ā
Guan Fei happened to finish reading a document, and when he heard the words, he suddenly looked out the window, only to see that the plane had arrived at the parking stand, and in the misty rain and fog, a blue gangway truck leaned on the side of the plane and was docking. He quickly gathered up the scattered papers, put them in his briefcase, tilted his head slightly, and thanked the stewardess.
"Thank you for flying on Pan Am and we hope you enjoy your trip. If you take this flight again in the future, maybe we'll meet again, here's my business card with my phone number on it. With a sweet smile, the blonde stewardess boldly took out a business card from her chest and handed it to Guan Fei with a strong perfume smell and warm body temperature.
"Mr. Guan, you can get off the plane."
Two men with dark faces and black suits entered from the rear cabin, came closer, vigilantly observed the stewardess who was too close, and said respectfully to Guan Fei.
Guan Fei handed the briefcase to one of them, stood up, smiled and nodded to the stewardess, looked around at several other western-faced passengers in the first class, and said with a hearty smile: "Welcome to Hong Kong, we have booked a hotel for you in Victoria Harbour, you can go wash and rest first." I'll go back to the company to arrange it first, and then I'll pick up the wind for you in the evening. ā
"Very good, I spent more than ten hours on the plane, it was really uncomfortable. The food on board was also unpalatable, so I was planning to find a hotel to take a shower. ā
Several pot-bellied passengers in the first-class cabin responded with a smile and politely waited for him to go first.
Followed by the bodyguards, Guan Fei walked through the business class and nodded to the dozens of passengers in the cabin with a smile. Walking out of the business class, a group of bodyguards and entourages gathered up.
In the economy class, more people gathered around and greeted him warmly.
The captain opened the hatch with his own hands, stood sideways, patiently waited for Guan Fei to be polite, and then walked down the gangway under the protection of his bodyguards.
After that, it was the first class and business class passengers, and when they finished disembarking, the passengers in the economy class flocked to disembark through the cabin door.
After everyone left, the waiting stewardesses relaxed, packed their carry-on luggage lively, and laughed and talked.
"Elena, I saw it, you just gave that young gentleman's business card!"
"Yes, it's a pity that it's useless. I threw a few winks at him, but he didn't even see them. The blonde sighed, out of breath.
"Look at him as young as he is, and he has been working diligently all the way, most of them are the heirs of a big consortium in Hong Kong, and he is working hard to take over his father's class. For them, career is the most important thing, and women are just casual play. Even if I soak you, most of them will have a one-night stand with you, and then forget about it. Another beautiful flight attendant pouted and said with a sour taste.
"I can afford to charter a special plane to receive customers casually, such a rich boy, even if it is a one-night stand, I am willing!" The blonde snorted from her nostrils, dragged the trolley suitcase, and stomped away in her heels.
"Bitch!" The stewardess who had made a sarcastic remark just now scolded in a low voice.
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Outside the airport, a large number of limousines were already waiting, and umbrellas were spread out like blooming flowers.
"Guan, there is a lot of power in Hong Kong!" LHK General Manager Lancelot whispered to Kony, the product development manager next to him.
Other representatives of manufacturers who came to inspect were amazed by such a large pick-up team.
The road outside Kai Tak Airport was very narrow, and it was raining, so it was inconvenient for everyone to greet each other too much, so Guan Fei and the American partners on the same plane politely greeted one by one, sent them to the car, and got into a Mercedes-Benz themselves, and quickly left the airport under the escort of two black commercial vehicles in front and behind.
As soon as he got into the car, he took off his coat, ripped off his tie and threw it aside.
"Commander, this trip to promote our portable tape recorders and electronic components has cost no less than two million dollars. You also chartered a special plane to pick up those manufacturers to come for inspection, and then gave them a room in a luxury hotel. The most expensive kind of business suite, it costs more than 6,000 Hong Kong dollars for one night, and the cost is too big! Zhou Xiaoshan said with a frown.
People who are accustomed to living a hard life like to see the money flowing into their pockets the most, and they can't see the money flying out.
Speaking of Zhou Xiaoshan's hosting of Taiyu Technology, the amount of money he has passed is hundreds of millions, but Guan Fei's speed of throwing out two million dollars in just one month still makes him feel heartbroken.
In this era, not to mention in China, but also in the world, millions are still an extremely large number, and millionaires are still the highest pursuit of countless people. The vast majority of people in the world do not dare to hope that they can achieve this wish in their lifetime.
Even Zhou Xiaoshan himself, although he is in a high position and has hundreds of millions of dollars in his hands, he does not dare to guarantee whether he will be able to earn this amount of wealth until he dies.
It was hard for him to accept that millions of dollars had come to naught, but no tangible results had yet been achieved.
"What did Meifeng say?" Guan Fei unbuttoned the collar of his shirt and asked as he stepped forward.
Pan Meifeng is now the general manager of Hasbro, and has also become a senior management cadre of Guanfei Group. Hasbro and New Era are all new companies, even if it is Taiyu Technology, it is a new company that has only risen in more than a year, and it is not well-known in the United States. Chartering a flight, inviting customers to stay in a high-end business hotel, seems to spend a little more money, but can leave the other party with the impression of our wealth and strength, and then show our technical strength, it will be much easier to talk about cooperation in the future. ā
"But it's too much, what if the cooperation can't be negotiated?" Zhou Xiaoshan still felt a little unsure.
Although he has presided over Taiyu Technology in Hong Kong for a year and a half, and has taken time to study business courses, he is no stranger to the operation mode of the commercial society, but Taiyu Technology is basically an exclusive business. At present, although there are some counterfeit manufacturers in Japan, Europe and the United States, after all, they are still waiting for customers to come to the door of the marketing model, and they are not very suitable for spending a lot of money to take the initiative to find a partner.
"That's the way it is in the market, the input and the output are always not proportional. Maybe a lot of money was spent, but it still didn't reach the goal. However, they are reluctant to spend money, and they are less likely to achieve their goals. If you want to say whether it is cost-effective or not, it depends on how big our goal is......" Pan Meifeng's beautiful eyes wandered and looked at Guan Fei.
Guan Fei smiled, leaned back on the back seat, lightly tapped his fingers on the leather seat, and said lightly: "The reason why I lobbied for the formation of this huge delegation is to try to see if we can turn Hong Kong into the Silicon Valley of the East." ā
His voice was very soft, and there were no ups and downs, just like a normal chat, but Pan Meifeng and Zhou Xiaoshan who heard it suddenly opened their mouths wide, staring at him and unable to say a word.
They knew that Guan Fei had always had a lofty goal, but this goal was also too big, almost a fantasy!
What is Silicon Valley, Zhou Xiaoshan, who has been in the electronic technology industry for a year and a half, is already thunderous now, and it is impossible to think about it.
Geographically, Silicon Valley is nothing more than a 25-mile stretch of valley located in northern California, USA, starting from the southern part of San Francisco Bay and along Highway 101, including Monroe Park, Palatoquin Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Campbell, and San Jose.
In the literal sense, the factories in this 25-mile valley are mainly engaged in silicon wafer preparation, semiconductor and computer design and production, and even the high-density areas of the electronics industry in the related industrial chain.
However, it was in this narrow band that the inventor of the transistor, William? Shockley founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which opened the prelude to the development of modern semiconductor technology.
After Xiao Keli stopped developing silicon transistors, eight engineers who fled in anger raised funds to establish Fairchild Semiconductor. With the disintegration of Fairchild, Intel and AMD, which are now more famous and will be more brilliant in the future, were born, bringing the development of semiconductors to the fast lane of rapid development.
With the support of software and hardware such as Intel, AMD, and venture capital companies, countless scientists, engineers, scholars, and college students who are interested in the semiconductor industry have started their own businesses here. Many of them started from scratch, and immediately after their initial success, they received financial help from venture capital firms, and then developed and grew in a short period of time.
In the past few decades, in this narrow valley, one successful person after another has been born, creating a realistic version of the miracle of getting rich overnight.
Among these successful people, not only do old powerhouses such as Fairchild, Intel, AMD, and HP stand tall, but countless new companies are established every day.
Just the year before last, two young people who were only 21 and 26 years old founded a company called Apple Computer. With the help of commercially available generic electronic components, they assembled their own low-cost versions of computers and sold 50 of them. Last year, the second generation of the more mature Apple was launched, becoming the first personal computer in history, which caused a sensation, and in one year, it swept up $300 million, becoming the leader of the new generation of Silicon Valley companies, and the future is limitless!
The exemplary effect of successful people has led to more and more scientific and technological talents and entrepreneurs gathering in Silicon Valley, and countless people regard this place as the starting point of their first business. A large number of venture capital firms are also attracted by the possibility of good returns, and the abundant influx of capital makes Silicon Valley even more attractive.
Today, Silicon Valley is not just a desert valley densely populated with semiconductor production plants, but the origin of dreams and the heart of the development of semiconductor technology in the United States!
Even further, it is the spokesperson of the powerful scientific and technological image of the United States!
With the scientific and technological strength of the United Kingdom, it is willing to succumb to the inferior side in the face of Silicon Valley, and Hong Kong, a port city lacking in science and technology, can only look up to it but cannot look at it.
Guan Fei actually boasted that he planned to try to develop Hong Kong into the Silicon Valley of the East, but Zhou Xiaoshan and Pan Meifeng were really speechless except for suspecting that they had auditory hallucinations.
No matter how confident they are in Guan Fei, they can't feel that there is any possibility of realizing this idea.