Chapter 583 Hanzhong Province Wants Northwest Airlines
There will definitely be resistance to the merger of the five major airlines into three major airlines, and the interest relationships involved are very complicated. Even Xia Honghua does not dare to say that it will succeed.
No one doubts the potential of China's air transport market, but they just didn't expect this market to develop so fast.
In Yao Yuan's impression, China Xia Airlines' passenger fleet size will be close to 4,000 aircraft in 2020, transporting 450 million passengers annually. This is a large market of nearly 500 billion.
Nowadays, the total number of registered aircraft of the six major airlines is only a few hundred, which is far from being able to meet the market demand. Especially with the increasing number of foreign exchanges since the reform and opening up, it is even more stretched.
The French Ward Investment Group, controlled by Su Wangting, has submitted purchase orders for 30 A-320s, 20 A-330s, and 15 A-340s to Airbus. The two parties signed a purchase contract for the first batch of 10 A-320s.
The deposit has been paid.
After receiving the aircraft, these aircraft will be transferred to Huayin Aviation Leasing Company, and then New United Airlines and New Beihang will acquire these aircraft from Huayin Aviation Leasing Company through purchase and leasing to expand the fleet size. This is complicated.
The method is that because New Beihang has no money, Yao Yuan can of course ask other group companies to inject capital into New Beihang, but this will change the ownership structure of New Beihang.
Therefore, we can only cooperate with banks. Fortunately, Yao Yuan has his own bank.
Now, the important role of Hua Xia United Bank and Deep Development Bank has become more and more prominent. When encountering financial problems, banks can play a regulatory and blood supply role.
This is only an aircraft purchased from Airbus. In the development plan of New Beihang, there is also a plan to purchase aircraft from Boeing Aircraft Company.
However, because New United Airlines has a military background, all Boeing passenger aircraft will not join the company's fleet. That is, there are only two options, Airbus and Tu-154. However, Yao Yuan has determined that all Tu-154s will be withdrawn from the passenger fleet.
Yes, United Airlines will become an airline specializing in operating Airbus aircraft and domestic aircraft in the future.
Logically speaking, this information is a commercial secret and should not be shown to others, but Yao Yuan still showed it in order to allow several leaders to have an intuitive understanding of the future civil aviation market, and at the same time to provide guidance to those who can influence
A way for upper-level policy think tanks to instill new ideas.
After the three of them read the five-year development plan of New Beihang, Director Tang sighed, "Xiao Yao, you are betting that tomorrow will be better. You will introduce seventy aircraft in one go. If you are not careful, you will lose everything."
I understand that you have great confidence in the civil aviation passenger transport market."
"Yes." Yao Yuan did not hide his ambition. He said, "Before entering the new century, New Beihang's fleet will be expanded three times and old models will be eliminated. In fact, I have already asked New Beihang to
All Tu-154 passenger aircraft have been withdrawn from passenger transport and converted into cargo aircraft. We are now in short supply of aircraft."
Xia Honghua smiled and "exposed" Yao Yuan's little thoughts, "You showed us this because you want Director Tang to speak for the introduction of aircraft for New Beihang, right?"
The introduction and leasing of aircraft require approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
The airspace and routes across the country are under the control of the Air Force, and all flight control rights are in the hands of the Air Force. The Civil Aviation Administration itself has no control rights. They are only responsible for the command and coordination of fixed routes and routes.
For example, if an airline wants to fly from Guangzhou to Harbin, if the Civil Aviation Administration of China does not have this route, it can only stop at one or several cities along the route it has, and then arrive in Harbin.
To a certain extent, the Air Force’s control of airspace and routes has restricted the development of the civil aviation market, but airspace is related to homeland security and is a paramount interest.
Vice Governor Zheng was very interested in leasing aircraft and asked, "Xiao Yao, you wrote that many aircraft are obtained through leasing. Can it be understood that even if none of the aircraft belongs to you?
Open an airline?”
Yao Yuan looked at Director Tang, smiled and nodded, "According to policy, yes. Who owns the airline's aircraft does not affect the airline's operation of these aircraft."
"Governor Zheng, do you have any ideas?" Xia Honghua said with a smile.
Vice Governor Zheng stopped hiding it and said, "The province has always had ideas. Director Xia, Director Tang, let me put it this way, the province has to allocate a sum of money to subsidize Northwest Airlines every year, but Northwest Airlines
Aviation is not a provincial enterprise of ours. We are an economically underdeveloped province and our finances are not rich to begin with."
"Subsidies are subsidies. It is our duty to support the development of national air transport, but there is no such thing as just paying without getting anything in return. Not to mention economic returns, the cooperation and exchanges between Chang'an Aircraft Factory and Ukraine's Antonov Design Bureau are becoming increasingly frequent.
Regarding the development of large military transport aircraft, Chang'an Factory hopes that the province will come forward to coordinate and allow Northwest Airlines to open flights to Kiev. The Air Force promised to approve the route, but Northwest Airlines has not expressed its stance..."
To put it bluntly, Vice Governor Zheng may not be fighting for the injustice of the Chang'an factory, but Northwest Airlines did not pay attention to the provincial coordination matters, which deeply hurt the provincial government's heart.
I give you so much money as a subsidy every year, but you are not only ungrateful but also so careless about my coordination and even refuse. Who can bear this?
Director Tang looked embarrassed. It is a tradition for large state-owned enterprises not to take local governments seriously, but the development of state-owned enterprises is often inseparable from the support of local governments.
However, Yao Yuan was very interested in the cooperation between Chang'an Factory and Antonov Design Bureau mentioned by Vice Governor Zheng. It seems that Zhong Weiguo and the others finally adopted Yao Yuan's opinion and started previous cooperation with many scientific research institutions in Ukraine.
The Antonov Design Bureau is a world-famous aircraft design bureau. The large aircraft and bombers of the former Soviet Union were basically developed by three major design bureaus. The other two are the Ilyushin Design Bureau and the Tupolev Design Bureau, both of which are famous.
aircraft design bureau.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine took over the Antonov Design Bureau in its territory.
The world's largest aircraft, the An-225 super large transport aircraft, was developed by this design bureau. It is the only one in the world. The An-225's "elder brother" An-124 "Ruslan" strategic transport aircraft is the American C-5 "Galaxy".
"An aircraft of the same level as a strategic transport aircraft, in fact, the An-225 is an enlarged version of the An-124. The An-124 is already very large, with a maximum take-off weight of 400 tons and can fly 5,000 kilometers when loaded with 150 tons of cargo.
Most of the An-124s disposed of by Ukraine were bought by Yao Yuan and became the absolute main force of Swiss Super Airlines' cargo fleet.
At that time, Yao Yuan suggested to Zhong Weiguo that he should seize the opportunity and ask the domestic military industry units to quickly carry out technical cooperation with the Ukrainian military industry research and development units. He did not know what happened later.
Now he learned from Vice Governor Zheng that the Changan Factory has launched technical cooperation with the Antonov Design Bureau. He was very pleased. This means that domestically produced military large aircraft can be launched earlier than in previous generations. Of course, there are still several steps left in this process.
Yao Yuan has memorized all the key points, and he must play his role by then. Without a strong army, there will be no strong country. Yao Yuantai hopes that the national defense armed forces of the motherland can also achieve rapid development in the era of military expenditure austerity.
At this time, Vice Governor Zheng clearly expressed the opinion of the province and said, "Leave Northwest Airlines to us and we will be responsible."