Chapter 336 The king’s magnanimity!

Author: Mei Zi Xu

Chapter 336 The king’s magnanimity!

At the Airbus assembly headquarters in Toulouse, France, an extremely long large truck is entering through the gate of the assembly headquarters. On top of the truck are A380 aircraft components produced in various places.

In the square inside the headquarters, Ronnie Covey, COO of Airbus headquarters, faced the sunshine, squinted at the trucks entering the factory, and couldn't help but frown: "It's two days later than expected."

Next to him, the person in charge of the assembly headquarters was very frightened and hurriedly explained: "Some time ago, there was a strike in France, which affected land transportation, so it was delayed for a while."

"In a while, just in two days? Is there such a big difference in the definition of time between you and me?" Ronny snorted heavily: "The recent growth of our company's stock price is all due to the A380. If there is a flaw in the A380 plan, you

Just resign yourself."

The person in charge of the assembly department was sweating profusely: "When we were making plans, we reserved some margin so that it would not affect the launch of the new A380 later."

"That's the best." Ronny watched as the A380 components entered the factory and couldn't help but sigh: "Land transportation is still too slow and is easily affected by many factors."

The person in charge of the assembly department hurriedly answered: "I heard that the R&D department has finalized the A300-600ST, and later I heard that five more will be produced, and they can be transported by air in the future."

"Don't use Super Guppy anymore?"

Super Guppy is a special-purpose transport aircraft modified from the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. It is often used to transport aircraft components. Airbus also used the Super Guppy transport aircraft for a long time.

For this reason, Airbus once joked that every Airbus aircraft was transported by Boeing.

"It should be unnecessary." The person in charge of the assembly department said proudly: "I have seen the prototype of the A300-600ST, which can completely load the main fuselage components of the next heavy-duty aircraft. According to the calculations of the Ministry of Transport, these aircraft

Once the A300-6000ST starts operating, it will increase our aircraft component transportation capacity by more than 30 percent."

"But if the A300ER is used as the prototype, the A380 components will still not be transported."

The A300-600ST is based on the A300ER aircraft. Even though the cabin of the A300-600ST was widened and raised for transportation purposes, it still cannot accommodate the huge fuselage components of the A380.

There is no way, the A380 is too big.

The person in charge of the assembly department looked stiff: "Well. The Ministry of Transportation said that it has taken this issue into consideration and may develop an XL type of special-purpose transport aircraft in the future."

"XL model, which model is it based on?"

"It is said to be based on the A330." The person in charge of the assembly department said cautiously: "However, it depends on the sales volume of the A380. If the sales volume of the A380 is sufficient, the research and development of XL transport aircraft will continue to keep up."

"Hmph! After all, your assembly department and transportation department are still useless. If the launch of the A380's first aircraft is delayed, none of you will be able to escape." As soon as the A380 was mentioned, Ronnie's anger grew again.

However, a joking voice suddenly sounded behind him: "What's the matter, so angry?"

Ronnie frowned slightly, looked back, and found Airbus CFO Neo walking over with a smile.

"What are you doing here?" Ronnie seemed to dislike Neo, the chief financial officer: "Isn't it better to be your accountant in the office? Is this the place you should come?"

Compared to the aggressive Ronnie, Neo has a much gentler temperament. He stands beside Ronnie with his hands behind his back: "It's not good to stay in the house all the time. It's easy to miss a lot of interesting things. For example, I just heard

It is said that Xu Cang recently dropped a Boeing 777 with a broken wing. For example, not long ago, Alpine Manor has received new and sufficient supplies."

"Delivered?" Ronnie raised an eyebrow. He was involved with Mrs. Wharton, Stephen Longsi and others, but he did not spend all his energy on it. A380 was his top priority.

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After leaving Munich, he went straight to Toulouse, France, but no longer cared about Xu Cang's affairs. Now when he heard Neo talk about it, he was a little surprised.

"Not dead?" Ronnie snorted softly, looking a little unhappy.

"You don't look happy?"

"I'm not sure whether I'm happy or not, but what I'm sure of is that you seem to be quite happy." Ronnie snorted coldly: "I know Xu Cang saved you, but I heard that you actually informed the marketing department to give Xu Cang three planes.

The preferential discounts. What kind of weight does his company deserve to enjoy the discount?"

Neo's expression did not change at all: "Xu Cang is not a thing in the pool. What's wrong with settling a good relationship with him now? Rather than talking about me, shouldn't you be more careful? You don't know who Mrs. Wharton is. What are you talking about?

When she makes a deal, she's not afraid of anything going wrong?"

"Mrs. Wharton, of course I know. Her husband is an executive of EADS. Why do you think I help her?"

EADS stands for European Aerospace Defense Group, the parent company of Airbus.

"Aren't you afraid of being caught?" Neo said coldly.

Ronnie didn't take it seriously: "I don't know what you are talking about."

In front of the two big leaders, the head of the assembly department was sweating coldly, for fear that he would hear something he shouldn't hear. To be honest, he didn't want to know at all about the grievances and secrets between the leaders.

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However, fortunately, Neo gave him a wink and asked him to leave first. The person in charge of the assembly department fled immediately as if he had been granted amnesty.

"Let's not talk about Mrs. Wharton's matter for the moment. It was also you who authorized the joint Pratt & Whitney sanctions against Bombardier?" Neo said: "Aren't you at odds with Bombardier?"

"Humph, when they release the CS300 aircraft, this day is destined to happen." Ronnie said nonchalantly: "Who is Bombardier and dares to steal our market? A second-rate company that develops regional passenger aircraft, who gave it the courage?

?”

This is Airbus, one of the two giants of passenger aircraft. In the eyes of Airbus, being the world's third largest aircraft developer is described as second-rate.

"I not only want to unite with Pratt & Whitney, but also with Boeing in the future. I want Bombardier to die without a burial place." Ronnie showed a hint of sinisterness: "The supplies from the Alps have been delivered, although it is not the result I want to see.

But, in a sense, I can also turn it to my advantage."

Neo couldn't help but frown. He had no doubts about the ability of his colleague. But Ronnie was too focused on interests, and even said that everything was based on interests, almost losing his humanity.

"You don't have to be like this. We can communicate with Bombardier privately. Things have not gotten out of hand yet, and there is still room for recovery."

Ronny turned his head and said, "Are you just worried that Bombardier will interfere with our orders in the business jet market? First of all, the business jet market is not big in the first place. Even if our business jet sales decline, the impact will not be big, and it is a risk.

The scope of acceptance is also that I have made an agreement with Embraer in advance that they will be responsible for restraining Bombardier's possible actions in the field of business jets to minimize possible losses."

Although Bombardier is submissive in the mainline passenger aircraft market, in the business jet market, it is at the level of a small overlord. However, the business jet market is narrow and profits are limited, so it can only take the risk to enter the mainline passenger aircraft market.

Airbus has business jet products, but of course those are not their flagship products. Just like Ronny said, if Bombardier wants to regain its place in the business jet market, it will not have a big impact on Airbus. Of course,

Airbus will not sit back and watch Bombardier develop their business jet products. It is good to lose less money, and no one will have trouble with money.

In the business jet market, Embraer is also one of the giants. With Embraer acting as the anchor, competition in the business jet market will never be too fierce.

It can be said that Ronnie was indeed very thoughtful and had made arrangements in advance, blocking Bombardier's last possibility of resistance.

Neo: "Is it possible that Embraer agrees to cooperate with you without conditions?"

"Of course." Ronnie didn't care very much: "They plan to develop a 110-seat passenger aircraft in the future, and they hope that we will turn a blind eye. Humph, these people who make regional airliners are all unreasonable.

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"One hundred and ten seats." Neo frowned: "Bombardier's CS100 back then also had one hundred and ten seats."

"So, Embraer is also very flexible. But it doesn't matter. One hundred and ten seats is the limit. As long as they don't know how to break through this limit like Bombardier, then one hundred and ten seats can be tolerated. Just like before

Treat Bombardier the same way." Ronnie said with a smile, everything was under control.

One hundred and ten seats, this is a very sensitive standard line. Just like Bombardier, the CS100 at the beginning had this number of seats. In addition, the CS100 sales were poor, so neither Airbus nor Boeing paid much attention to it.

As a result, Bombardier pushed further and developed the 130-seater CS300, which directly annoyed Airbus, which was trying hard to promote the A319, and this led to catastrophe.

Neo didn't know what to say about Ronnie's approach of eradicating the roots. This was a conflict of business ideas, a complete conflict.

When conflicts arise, Neo tends to communicate and dialogue in a relatively gentle and smooth way to find a solution acceptable to both parties. But Ronnie is different. As long as he doesn't step on the line, he doesn't bother to care what the other party does, but

Once it crosses the line, it will be a thunder strike, and the method is extremely cruel.

When Bombardier released the CS300 aircraft, Airbus learned about it and contacted Bombardier privately, hoping that it would stop the development of the CS300. This unreasonable request was naturally rejected by Bombardier, but this was the only dialogue between Airbus and Bombardier.

Under Ronnie's instruction, the head of Airbus North America directly approached the president of Pratt & Whitney Dynamics and jointly sanctioned Bombardier.

If Neo had made the decision, he would have had to talk to him three times and only take action if it didn't work.

However, Neo is in charge of finance and does not have much say in operations, so there is nothing he can do about it.

It was even said that not only Neo was surprised by Ronnie's aggressive actions, but even Bombardier felt that they couldn't accept it. They were probably still waiting for the second negotiation. In the end, the invitation to negotiate did not come and they just waited.

sanctions.

Neo knew that nothing could be done, so he could only sigh: "The matter is far from that point, and Bombardier is not a small company. This time, asking Pratt & Whitney to cooperate with us in sanctioning Bombardier, isn't it a big favor owed to Pratt & Whitney?"

"It doesn't matter. Pratt & Whitney's recent PW6000 is indeed a good engine. We had originally planned to purchase it, but this time it was just a favor. Moreover, Pratt & Whitney's delayed PW8000 project is also worthy of attention. We owe it to

It's a favor from Pratt & Whitney, but it's easy to repay it. As for what you said, things are far from that point." Ronnie took a deep breath: "It goes without saying that the CS100's poor sales volume, but the CS300 is not so good.

Same. According to the information I got

, Lufthansa currently has seven CS300s and intends to order ten in the future. LCI Leasing wants to order twenty, Air Baltic wants to order twenty, Ilyushin Group wants to order thirty, and Macquarie Group wants to order forty.

There are some things I don't know about. No

Wrong, this number is not much, but it is much better than CS100, which shows that CS300 has this potential. I don’t care how CS100 sells, but CS300 directly conflicts with A319 and must be strangled to prevent future troubles."

"Has it developed to this point?" Neo knew that the CS300 aircraft had better sales than the previous CS100 aircraft, but he did not expect that it was already showing signs of popularity, and he immediately began to re-examine his attitude towards Bombardier.

Regarding the CFO who controls the entire Airbus finance, even if his ideas are not consistent, Ronnie does not want to make things too ugly: "I have made it very clear. If you still think that Bombardier should be left to its own devices, then I have nothing to say.

Say. However, if you can join me on the issue of Bombardier and the issue of discounts for the three aircraft sold to Spring and Summer Airlines, I can make concessions."

The discount issue is not a decisive issue. Anyway, it is a matter of earning more and less, and the quantity is not large. It is not bad to sell it to Neo to save face.

However, Bombardier's matter is related to the sales of its flagship products for a long time in the future. Ronnie does not want to be held back by his colleagues on this issue. Even if he makes up his mind, Neo will be helpless.
To be continued...