Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

"Everyone, I have ordered 3,000 L3400s for Huaxing Airlines. According to the current production capacity, these 3,000 aircraft can be fully delivered in six years. With this aircraft, Huaxing Airlines can take the cheap and affordable route. After all, there are still many poor people in this world..."

On the big screen in the conference room, Xu Huasheng started the meeting.

Everyone knows the excellence of this aircraft, so Huaxing Airlines will directly use this aircraft to show its strength.

"Next, Huaxing Airlines will mainly develop markets in China and Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, as well as Central Asia and the Middle East. Take advantage of our ticket price advantage to seize the market, cultivate our user groups, and cultivate our relevant talents. At the same time, the investment and construction of infrastructure must keep up. The construction of domestic airports is not limited to provincial capitals, but should be extended to prefecture-level cities. Small airports that can meet the take-off and landing of this aircraft should be built in prefecture-level cities..."

Xu Huasheng began to talk about the next strategic layout of Huaxing Airlines.

Invest in airports, expand the number of aircraft, cultivate customers, and cultivate talents.

In the next few years, Huaxing Company will grow rapidly. Huaxing not only has L3400, but also Boeing 737, and is now negotiating orders with Airbus, and may purchase larger and more luxurious aircraft.

Everyone is very energetic and full of hope for the future.

Huaxing does not have to worry about funds. Xu Huasheng has been injecting funds into Huaxing over the years. Although Huaxing is losing money now, it can make more money in the future.

Huaxing Airlines got busy, and just one week later, the first batch of ten L3400s were delivered to Huaxing.

Huaxing has also made preparations long ago. This time, Huaxing Airlines directly put these ten aircraft into the Beijing-Shanghai route.

After the company's comprehensive calculation of the ticket price, it gave a price between 565 and 425 yuan. The price is different at different time points, and the second half of the night is the cheapest. And this price directly includes all expenses, including airport fuel fees, insurance fees, airport construction fees and other expenses.

In fact, this price is already very cheap. If other airlines' ticket prices are included in these fees, they will cost 2,300 or even higher. Even in the middle of the night, they will cost 1,700 or 1,800.

Compared with those air tickets, Huaxing's price is only one-fourth of theirs.

But even so, if the occupancy rate can reach 90%, Huaxing Airlines can earn about 12,000 yuan for one flight between Beijing and Shanghai.

The flight process of the Beijing-Shanghai route is only two hours, and the L3400 maintenance is also more convenient and takes less time.

According to civil aviation regulations, an aircraft cannot fly more than eight hours a day.

So Huaxing arranged four flights for each aircraft, each flight lasting two hours, a total of two round trips.

In other words, if the comprehensive occupancy rate of this aircraft can reach 90%, it can earn 48,000 yuan a day. If it is full, the net profit of an aircraft will definitely exceed 50,000 yuan a day.

This profit is quite considerable. If it is based on such a profit, even if an aircraft flies 300 days a year, the net profit will be 15 million yuan a year.

In less than three years, the cost of the aircraft can be recovered.

In this world, cost performance is the killer. It seems cheap, but the profit is not less.

At the same time, this is also a victory of technology. Although the L3400 is relatively cheap and looks backward. But the two turboprop engines of the L3400 are very advanced.

A lot of new materials and technologies are used inside. Even the United States and Europe today cannot imitate this engine. Just the various new materials inside are enough to trap them for many years. This is still under the condition of large-scale investment in research and development. If you don’t invest a lot of money, don’t even think about conquering the technology.

Sometimes technology is like this. In 2035, many technologies in the world are very advanced. But whether it is China or the United States, in some technical fields, they can’t even catch up with the technology of the Soviet era.

This is the charm of science and technology. Sometimes a very small technology can trap many countries for many years.

"The domestic passenger aircraft L3400 was officially delivered to Huaxing Company, and a price killer appeared on the Beijing-Shanghai route..."

"A ticket killer appeared on the Beijing-Shanghai route, and Huaxing Company took out a price killer..."

"Huaxing Airlines launched a low-cost airline project, and the lowest price on the Beijing-Shanghai route is only 425 yuan..."

"Shocking, the plane ticket is even cheaper than the train ticket, and the amazing cost-effectiveness of the L3400 shocked the world..."

Huaxing Company began to promote, and an article began to appear on the Internet.

These articles soon caused heated discussions on the entire network, and many people couldn't help but go to Alipay after seeing these articlesSearch for tickets for the Beijing-Shanghai route.

When the tickets came out, the first one was China Star Airlines' tickets. The price was exactly as the article said. The most expensive one was over 500 yuan, and the cheapest one was only over 400 yuan, which was cheaper than a train soft sleeper.

Many people couldn't believe the low price. It was too cheap. It was only a quarter of the price of ordinary tickets. Can this airline make money?

Many passengers bought tickets directly with a try-it mentality.

When buying tickets, there was also a reminder that the tickets were special tickets, non-refundable after purchase, and no one on the plane had any meals.

But even so, many people bought tickets without hesitation.

There are very few tickets for ten planes.

If you are slow, you will miss it. At present, tickets on Alipay are only sold for one month in advance. For tickets of other airlines, if you book a month in advance, you may get special tickets, such as 60% and 70% off.

But China Star Airlines has no discounts at all. The price is unified. The ticket price for the same period is the same. It is the same price on the day and one month later. It is a fixed price.

Yanjing International Airport is very busy early in the morning.

Zhang Haitao often needs to travel between Beijing and Shanghai for work. Zhang Haitao is a businessman. Although he can make some money, he is not a rich man. He only takes a plane when the situation is urgent. Most of the time, if the situation is not urgent, he will take a sleeper train.

In the past, it cost more than 2,000 yuan to take a plane from Yanjing to Shanghai, and Zhang Haitao was also in pain.

But today, Zhang Haitao did not feel distressed. The air ticket is more than 500 yuan, which is more expensive than the train ticket, but this price is within Zhang Haitao's affordable range.

The air ticket of more than 500 yuan makes Zhang Haitao very curious about the plane.

At 8:20 in the morning, the broadcast reminded passengers to start boarding. Zhang Haitao and other passengers took the shuttle bus to the boarding area. When they arrived next to the plane, they understood why the air ticket was so cheap.

This plane is not a jet but a propeller plane, and it is relatively small. At first glance, it is not as good as those big planes of Boeing and Airbus. But considering the price of the ticket, there is nothing to complain about.