Chapter 163: Airbus Chief Financial Officer and the Great Britannia Air Crash!
"Do you really think this plane is good?" Lu Jinghua's face was full of disbelief. "I heard that Airbus will launch models with 900 and 1,000 seats in the first level later. Almost a thousand people are crammed into a plane. Can there really be so many people? The maintenance cost of a four-engine plane should be very high."
Xu Cang leaned on the railing and raised a finger: "To be precise, the cost of the A380 is quite cost-effective compared to its capacity."
Airlines are not all stupid. The A380's early market research feedback is so good, which means this model must have its own competitiveness. Low energy consumption is one of the core competitiveness of the A380.
That's right, although this model is the world's largest civil airliner, it has very good control over energy consumption. However, Xu Cang only said half of what he said, that is, low energy consumption does not mean high returns. The most competitive range of the A380 is when it maintains a very high occupancy rate and high-quality route matching, both of which are indispensable.
Lu Jinghua glanced at Xu Cang and said, "You seem to be very familiar with that plane?"
"I just heard about it everywhere, I don't know much." Xu Cang smiled: "What's your situation? When can you finish the things on hand?"
Lu Jinghua laughed as well: "Why, you can't wait to exploit me? We still have to wait for a while. There are still too many places for work handover, and Wang Xuan is not adapting well."
Xu Cang had just met Wang Xuan, and after hearing his sigh, he guessed most of what was going on. Lu Jinghua was indeed a bit eccentric, but his work ability was quite strong. He managed the flight department of Blue Sky Airlines in an orderly manner even though he was relatively undisciplined.
Xu Cang glanced in the direction of the small conference room: "Let's go downstairs and talk. It's not convenient here."
Now Xu Cang and his companion are on the flight department floor, which has a large flow of people. Xu Cang is a socially anxious person and is not very willing to meet people he is not familiar with.
The two of them took the elevator down, and Xu Cang directly stuffed the inspection list into Lu Jinghua's hand and asked him to pass it to Feibiao. Apart from anything else, Xu Cang's ability to command people has improved a lot.
Lu Jinghua took the medical checklist, glanced at it, and said with emotion: "Less than a year ago, I thought you were still a completely bad guy, but now you have really changed dramatically."
Looking back now, Lu Jinghua couldn't help but sigh at the magic of fate.
Xu Cang's eyes flickered: "It's only whether I want to or not, not whether I can or not!"
Lu Jinghua was startled, and he was filled with envy. The talent visible to the naked eye was really enviable. Even if it had been wasted for a long time, as long as it was awakened one day, it would be able to soar into the sky again.
"Okay, stop being so narcissistic." After Lu Jinghua took over Xu Cang's oral interview form, Lu Jinghua threw a small notebook to Xu Cang.
Xu Cang took it and looked at it, and it turned out to be his pilot's license.
"Your new license! It's the only commercial license in the entire southwest, no, the entire country, that has dual-model endorsements." Lu Jinghua said with a smile, "Remember to return the old license later."
There are still quite a few airline transport licenses with dual-model endorsements, and many of those appointed representatives have airline transport licenses with dual-model endorsements. But at least as far as Lu Jinghua knows, this is the only commercial license with dual-model endorsements, which is really eye-opening.
Xu Cang played with his new license again: "I thought I had to go to Shandong Airlines to get it!"
The original plan was to obtain this license from Shandong Airlines, after all, the endorsement change was made at the Shandong Airlines stage. However , since Xu Cang was transferred back to Blue Sky Airlines, the authority was relatively humane and directly made the new license into Blue Sky Airlines and sent it directly to Blue Sky Airlines.
"Xu Cang, I heard that Rongcheng Airlines recently applied to the authority to revoke the title of a meritorious pilot of their airline, and the authority has accepted the application." Lu Jinghua walked side by side with Xu Cang: "Xu Cang, do you know about this?"
Xu Cang calmly put his new license into his pocket: "Who is it?"
"Wang Baotian!" Lu Jinghua said in a low voice, "I remember this guy was on Flight 9451 at the time, and he was one of the representatives who were going to Hanjing to file a complaint."
Xu Cang's expression didn't change at all: "Why do I feel like there's something else behind your words? Are you going to hide things from me?"
"Xu Cang, don't you understand what I mean?" Lu Jinghua's voice became a little anxious: "Did you do this?"
Xu Cang suddenly stopped and gave Lu Jinghua a smile as bright as the sun: "Do you think I am the kind of person who will take revenge for any slight?"
Lu Jinghua was stunned, thinking back to Xu Cang's past, and shook his head subconsciously: "Not really."
Whether it was the previous 1566 or 747S2 switch incident, Lu Jinghua could feel that Xu Cang's ideological awareness was too high and he was almost getting rid of vulgar interests.
At that time, Lu Jinghua said that Xu Cang was simply the reincarnation of a living Buddha, who spent all day doing things that burned himself to light up others.
However, Xu Cang's smile suddenly disappeared, and his gaze moved away from Lu Jinghua and fell towards the main entrance of the lobby on the first floor.
At this moment, a large group of people were coming in from the main entrance, making the scene look messy. Many of them seemed to be the leaders of Blue Sky Airlines with fawning smiles on their faces.
In the middle of the crowd, a middle-aged man with an arrogant demeanor occasionally spoke a few words to the people around him. However, when he saw Xu Cang's direction, he was stunned at first, and then his hair stood up, his face turned liver-colored, and he immediately abandoned the leaders of Blue Sky Airlines and shouted angrily towards Xu Cang: "Xu Cang!"
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows and walked towards the middle-aged man who was rushing over. He finally remembered who this person was. It was Chen Siyu, the chief pilot of Muhua Aviation Jianchuan Base.
Lu Jinghua was a little confused at first, but when he saw Chen Siyu's eagerness to kill him, he didn't care what was going on anymore and stood in front of Xu Cang, confronting Chen Siyu: "What do you want to do?"
Chen Siyu looked at Xu Cang behind Lu Jinghua, gnashing his teeth, wishing he could eat him alive. He pointed at Xu Cang and cursed, "Did you scheme to steal our airline quota?"
Xu Cang could naturally understand the logic behind Chen Siyu's anger. Once the Jianchuan base was promoted, it would be a success for all the people around him. His management level would rise several levels at once. However, when it was almost time to hold the celebration party, the headquarters gave up the airline quota that belonged to them. This was simply unheard of.
Moreover, after inquiring from various sources, it turned out that the airline quota was given to Xu Cang alone. Chen Siyu was originally going to come here today to discuss the subsequent code-sharing issues between the two companies, but he happened to meet Xu Cang. Isn't it like an enemy meeting, with extra jealousy?
At this time, a group of Blue Sky Airlines leaders also came up. Among them, the marketing manager who had been at odds with Xu Cang recently pointed at Xu Cang without asking any questions and said, "You are Xu Cang, right? How did you offend Mr. Chen again?"
Xu Cang was used to the leaders of Blue Sky Airlines being indiscriminate anyway, so he ignored the marketing manager and looked at Chen Siyu: "I think I should correct your statement. It was a fair trade, fair!"
"Fairness? Then tell me what a fair trade is?" Chen Siyu sneered.
Xu Cang lowered his eyes slightly: "You can go ask Ma Cheng!"
When Ma Cheng was mentioned, the marketing manager clicked his tongue and immediately became unhappy: "Xu Cang, what's your attitude?"
Before speaking, he looked at Lu Jinghua standing in front of Xu Cang, and retorted: "People are divided into groups, really. Two ungrateful wolves."
The fact that Lu Jinghua is about to leave Blue Sky Airlines is no longer news. In the eyes of the marketing manager, Lu Jinghua and Xu Cang are of the same kind.
"Especially you." The marketing manager pointed at Xu Cang and said, "You are teaming up with outsiders to destroy our brand, right? Since you are here, I have to tell you that you will not be able to operate under the name of Blue Sky Airlines in the near future."
Xu Cang's face suddenly darkened, but at this moment, Chen Siyu asked in a deep voice: "Xu Cang, you can't make use of the airline quota at all, what are you going to do?"
"What should I do?" Xu Cang took a deep breath, reached into his pocket, and took out the new license that Lu Jinghua had just given him.
He took a look at the license, a relieved smile appeared on his face, then he raised his head, looked directly at the marketing manager, flicked his wrist, and threw the license on the marketing manager: "From now on, you can never talk to me in that tone again."
"Xu Cang, you!" The marketing manager looked shocked. He never expected that Xu Cang would directly give up his license at Blue Sky Airlines. The meaning of this was self-evident.
At this time, a leader of the flight department yelled, "Xu Cang, do you think that you can come and go as you please at Blue Sky Airlines? Do you think you can leave without giving up your license? Dream on! Even if I let you rot here, don't even think about leaving."
"Let's wait and see!" Xu Cang had never felt so relaxed. He walked straight past Chen Siyu and the other group of people and walked out of the main entrance. He breathed in the refreshing air, and the whole person seemed to have emerged as a butterfly from a cocoon.
At this moment, he is finally free!
Suddenly, Xu Cang's eyes narrowed slightly, and an increasingly clear figure was reflected in his pupils.
And behind Xu Cang, how could Chen Siyu let Xu Cang go so easily? If he didn't get a satisfactory answer today, he might not be able to find a suitable opportunity next time.
But just as Chen Siyu was about to step forward, the steps he had just taken suddenly stopped, and a vigorous old man in Tang suit appeared beside Xu Cang in front of the door.
Chen Siyu was struck by lightning, and he immediately lowered his head and said respectfully with trembling voice: "Chairman!"
In Xu Cang's field of vision, the old man in Tang suit was looking at him with interest, and there seemed to be endless stories in his cloudy eyes.
He knew this person, Si Weimin, the chairman of Muhua Airlines and the helmsman of this giant state-owned enterprise.
"The little kid has a very bad temper." Si Weimin's smile was full of kindness, but it could be seen that he was also quite curious about Xu Cang.
"Chairman... Chairman!" Chen Siyu really didn't dare to breathe. He didn't know why the chairman of the headquarters was here.
As a result, the crutch in Si Weimin's hand hit the floor heavily, making a thudding sound, but this series of sounds seemed to hit Chen Siyu's heart directly.
"There is nothing for you to do here, go first." Si Weimin said lightly.
Chen Siyu and the marketing manager of Blue Sky Airlines looked at each other in bewilderment. In front of Si Weimin, a first-generation civil aviation person, they were both juniors among juniors. They dared not stay and turned around and left in a clean and neat manner.
Lu Jinghua saw Chen Siyu and others leaving, glanced at Xu Cang with a hint of worry in his eyes, but finally turned and left.
When there was no one around, Si Weimin smiled and said to Xu Cang, "Little kid, why did you tell Ma Cheng not to touch the A380?"
Xu Cang raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that Ma Cheng would attach so much importance to his opinion and even mentioned it to Muhua's helmsman.
Xu Cang naturally did not elaborate, but smiled and nodded slightly: "It's just a feeling, kid, there is no reason."
"But Ma Cheng doesn't think so. He not only reported it to me, but also asked the marketing department to re-analyze the prospects of the A380." Si Weimin doesn't look like the leader of a giant airline at all. Instead, he looks like a kind and amiable grandfather next door: "Ma Cheng values your opinion very much. It's rare for Ma Cheng to have such a thing happen."
"So you want to transfer all the risks to Blue Sky Airlines?" Xu Cang said with a smile: "Perhaps you can take this opportunity to bring down Blue Sky Airlines and then swallow it up in one fell swoop."
"Blue Sky Airlines?" Si Weimin's eyes were full of contempt. "Is this junk worth our time? If I have a choice, I would rather Blue Sky Airlines show us the bright prospects of the A380."
Now, Xu Cang felt more and more confused: "Is it necessary for you Muhua to be so obsessed with a single aircraft?"
An airline of Muhua Airlines' size shouldn't be so obsessed with one aircraft model, but the fact is that Muhua Airlines has invested much more energy in the A380 than he imagined.
Si Weimin smiled and said, "Little kid, do you know the saying that when luck comes, heaven and earth will work together, but when luck is gone, heroes are helpless? The A380 is the destiny of our Muhua, at least I hope so."
"What do you mean?" Xu Cang didn't quite understand.
Si Weimin did not hide anything from Xu Cang. He said patiently, "Yangcheng has already planned to bid for the 26th World University Summer Games."
Xu Cang was startled, his mind working rapidly: "Do you think the Universiade will be an opportunity? It's not possible, right? The Universiade will be such a strong motivation?"
"That's one thing. There's another more important one." Si Weimin lowered his eyelids and said calmly, "Soon... good news will come from Lausanne, Switzerland."
"Lausanne, Switzerland?" Xu Cang was stunned. Soon, a flash of inspiration came to his mind, and he immediately understood what Si Weimin meant: "You mean... the Olympics?"
Just as Xu Cang was still immersed in shock, his cell phone suddenly rang. He took it out and saw that it was Li Rongxian's number. Xu Cang frowned, but still answered the call.
As the call was connected, Li Rongxian's excited voice came from the other end: "Mr. Xu, the advice you provided earlier is really important. Our leader Leo hopes to meet with you before leaving."
Hearing Li Rongxian's tone, Xu Cang knew without hesitation that Airbus had probably really checked the engines of the same batch according to his suggestions and might have found the problem.
However, Xu Cang had no interest in meeting with Airbus executives, and he immediately declined: "No, I'm very busy now and don't have the time."
"Mr. Xu, our CFO really wants to meet you to discuss some other possibilities for cooperation." Li Rongxian immediately advised: "Leo will be returning to the UK soon. He plans to stop by Jianchuan on the way and then go home."
"I'm coming to Jianchuan on the way. Is there a flight from Jianchuan to the UK?"
"No, he will go to Jakarta from Jianchuan first, and then transfer to Heathrow from Jakarta," Li Rongxian explained.
"Jakarta to Heathrow?" Xu Cang licked his dry lips: "What's the flight number?"
"Hmm?" Li Rongxian really didn't expect Xu Cang to care about this, but he didn't hide it: "It's tentatively scheduled to be British Airways Flight 1009. Mr. Xu, is there any problem?"
"Take off from Jakarta... Flight 1009?" Xu Cang kept chewing on the two pieces of information, and finally asked: "Can you find out the aircraft number or registration number of the flight?"
Li Rongxian on the other end of the phone sensed something was wrong: "Mr. Xu, is there really nothing wrong?"
"No problem, I'm just asking." Xu Cang smiled and said, "Can you provide it?"
"Oh, OK." There was only a burst of sporadic voices coming from the other end of the phone. After about a minute of silence, Li Rongxian finally said, "I found out the registration number is... G-BDXH!"
As soon as the registration number was spoken, Xu Cang hung up the phone. He felt like his heart was about to jump out of his throat.
Opposite him, Si Weimin smiled and said, "You seem to have encountered something interesting?"
"Yeah!" Xu Cang's breath was trembling. It was really interesting. The departure and destination matched, the flight number matched, the airline matched, and even the registration number of the aircraft matched.
Airbus's chief financial officer was about to encounter the Great British Airways crash? This change really made Xu Cang feel the horror of fate.
Maybe he can take action!
