The Wealth Empire Crossing the Hong Kong

Chapter 215 Aviation Base
At ten o'clock in the morning on Friday, Li Jianhui and Wei Li went to the Xiangjiang Civil Aviation Office together.

Hong Kong Airlines is based at Kai Tak Airport and needs to build a lot of supporting facilities.

Moreover, because Kai Tak Airport is extremely busy and the apron is limited, Xiangjiang Airlines also needs to build an apron by itself so that its own aircraft can be parked for a long time.

Li Jianhui and the others already have ideas for building aviation food production areas, aircraft maintenance bases, and aprons.

Now it is mainly communicating with the Civil Aviation Department in charge of airport management. After approval, Li Jianhui will immediately start construction.

Before these packages are completed, Xiangjiang Airlines can only temporarily cooperate with Xiangjiang Aircraft Engineering Company.

Although Swire still controls the initiative in this company, it has gradually acquired shares over the past year, and Xinjian Investment Company has become the second largest shareholder of this company with 23% of the shares.

Although Taikoo cannot take control of this company, it still has some right to speak, and it is not afraid that Taikoo will deliberately embarrass Xiangjiang Airlines.

And before his own supporting industries are established, Li Jianhui will mainly focus on Taoyuan Airport, and these aircraft will mainly stop at the Taoyuan base.

Although he does not have many routes in Xiangjiang, there are many routes in Taoyuan. Half of Xiangjiang Airlines’ routes in Asia are from Taoyuan to a city, then from this city to Xiangjiang, and then return to that city from Xiangjiang, and then return to that city. Return to Taoyuan from that city.

For example, from Taoyuan to Tokyo, then from Tokyo to Xiangjiang, from Xiangjiang to Tokyo, and from Tokyo to Taoyuan.

Osaka, Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Xingzhou, etc., these routes are currently arranged in this way.

At the same time as the construction of Xiangjiang, Taoyuan Airport will also be constructed simultaneously. Xiangjiang Airlines will use Kai Tak Airport as the main base and Taoyuan Airport as the auxiliary base.

The civil aviation department is not bad, and it didn't embarrass Xiangjiang Airlines. It directly agreed to Xiangjiang Airlines' application.

However, some special requirements have been made for connecting the Hong Kong Airlines base to the airport to prevent the normal operation of Kai Tak Airport from being affected by Hong Kong Airlines.

"Please rest assured, Mr. Dreyfus, Hong Kong Airlines must strictly follow the relevant regulations for construction and operation, and will never cause trouble for the operation of Kai Tak Airport."

"Xiangjiang's aviation transportation industry has developed rapidly in the past few years. I also hope that the airlines of Xiangjiang can unite with each other, win the trust of passengers with their own services, and promote the sustainable development of our Hong Kong aviation transportation industry."

Driver still knows something about the struggle between the several major consortiums, especially Hong Kong Airlines’ previous recruitment banners outside Cathay Pacific, which aroused heated discussions from all walks of life in Hong Kong.

He didn't want several parties to bring this fire to the airport, especially since Kai Tak Airport has a small site, only one runway, and a very large passenger flow. If there is a conflict between several parties, the damage to the airport will be great.

After leaving the Civil Aviation Department, Li Jianhui immediately asked Wei Li to buy an old community in the northwest of the airport and a bakery in it.

According to the plan of Xiangjiang Airlines, the number of aircraft owned by Xiangjiang Airlines will increase to [-] within ten years. If the base is too small, it will not be able to meet the needs of Xiangjiang Airlines.

And Li Jianhui is not worried about losing money at all. Even if the airport is relocated in the future, he can completely demolish it and build Wheelock Square and residential areas.

As for the living quarters for the company's employees, Li Jianhui has no plans to buy them. He temporarily rents some housing for the employees to use. When the first phase of Whampoa Garden is completed, the airline employees can live there.

"Li Sheng, for our acquisition this time, I'm afraid that these people will sit on the ground and raise the price, and some will even open their mouths. If they want to complete the acquisition of this area, it may be difficult to complete it in a short time."

As soon as the news of Xiangjiang Airlines establishing an aviation base comes out, housing prices and land prices around the airport will inevitably skyrocket.

It's just that the surrounding area of ​​Kai Tak Airport is so big, there is not much wasteland for Xiangjiang Airlines to use.

If you choose to reclaim land, the cost will only be higher than the acquisition of these old communities.

A little more expensive is a little more expensive. Anyway, the land price in Xiangjiang will continue to soar in the future. If it is a little more now, it will be able to earn back in the future.

Moreover, Li Jianhui believes that the vast majority of residents would not want to live here if they had a choice. The noise of planes taking off and landing every day is not something ordinary people can bear. As for individual nail households, Li Jianhui has a lot of solutions.

而资金上面，因为订购了12架空客A300B4－100，和五架波音747－200，耗资3.1亿美金，约为15.86亿港币。

In addition to the construction of two maintenance and guarantee bases in Xiangjiang and Baodao, Li Jianhui allowed several major investment companies to carry out a new round of financing, which lowered the shares of several major banks in East Asia, Daoheng, Defeng, and Xinjian, and also increased for Xiangjiang Airlines. 10 billion Hong Kong dollars in funding.

It’s no wonder that Cathay Pacific has always been the only airline in Hong Kong. It would be too costly to develop a good airline.

Moreover, the recovery cost of this industry is far from being comparable to that of real estate. The cost recovery of an aircraft takes at least seven or eight years. If you encounter unpopular routes, you will not be able to recover the cost for ten years.

Li Jianhui established an airline company not to make a lot of money, but to influence.

If you have one of the top five passenger airlines in the world, the weight of words will be completely different.

Li Jianhui did not put all this matter on Wei Li. After all, he is mainly in charge of Tesco Group's affairs. In addition, Lane Crawford will be listed on the Far East Exchange next Wednesday, and Watsons will be listed next Wednesday. Wei Li's work is quite busy.

Regarding the acquisition of old residential areas and factory areas, Li Jianhui just asked Wei Li to take the overall responsibility, and Su Hongtao, the president of Wheelock Land, will handle the specific matters.

After all, this land will also belong to Wheelock Land after Kai Tak Airport ceases operations, which is just right for them to contribute now.

Moreover, this construction will also be undertaken by Wheelock Construction Company, and the specific land acquisition will also be determined by Wheelock Land.

I don't know if there are forces who deliberately want to make it more difficult for Li Jianhui. On the day he entered the Civil Aviation Department, the news that Xiangjiang Airlines was going to build an aviation base had spread all over the streets.

The citizens next to the airport were extremely excited and full of apprehension. They were glad that the opportunity to change their destiny had come, but worried that their family would miss this opportunity.

On the other hand, Xiangjiang Airlines has not announced specific plans for a long time. It seems that these news are all rumors, and there is no idea of ​​building an aviation base at all.

Only the staff of Wheelock Land went in and out of the surrounding area of ​​Kai Tak Airport from time to time, and began to survey and measure these places.

On the contrary, Kowloon Airlines reported that the company leased two Boeing 747s from Delta Air Lines. On the 1st of next month, it will fly three routes from Xiangjiang to Beijing, Xiangjiang to Shanghai, and Xiangjiang to Yangcheng.

The citizens of Xiangjiang were quite surprised. They did not expect that Xiangjiang Airlines, which has a huge momentum, was officially launched later than Kowloon Airlines.

(End of this chapter)