manynovel Chapter 1154 Good News and Bad News
Chapter 1154 Good News and Bad News
The Spring Festival in Qinxi Province in [-] came in this snow-covered field.When people across the country celebrate the Spring Festival, it is not without shadows.
Bird flu continues to spread in China and Southeast Asia. Following the discovery of bird flu in Vietnam, bird flu was also found in Thailand, Cambodia, and Malaysia, although no one has been found to be infected with bird flu yet.But the World Health Organization has clearly issued a warning that the h5n1 virus that causes bird flu is highly contagious in birds and can easily spread to other animal populations. The epidemic situation in Asian countries may further develop.Worsening The European Union has restricted the import of chicken from China and Southeast Asia, and the domestic breeding industry is in shock every day. A large number of poultry have been hunted and destroyed.
The impact of mad cow disease in the United States continues to expand. In many states in the United States, stores have refused to buy American beef. Although the United States Department of Agriculture has publicly announced that after strict dn tests, the first "mad cow" found in the United States was born The place is Alberta, Canada.Internationally, more and more countries have issued bans on American beef, and they are becoming stricter.This puts American beef in a domestic and foreign situation.At the same time, the price of soybeans in the international market continues to decline, which makes many people worry about it.
Two American Mars rovers successfully landed on Mars one after the other, triggering a space craze around the world. The President of the United States delivered a speech at NASA's Washington headquarters, proposing to strive for the launch of Mars within ten years at the earliest and no later than 15 years at the latest. American astronauts returned to the moon and established the first human scientific research base on the moon, preparing for the next step of sending humans to Mars and even further planets.
Just when Fang Mingyuan was about to leave Pingchuan and go to the capital, another good news came from Qinxi Airlines. Qinxi Airlines successfully reached a cooperation agreement with Shunfeng Express, a well-known domestic express company. An md82 aircraft was professionally refitted into a cargo plane, and it traveled between the three distribution centers in Yangcheng, Shanghai, and Beijing.Moreover, in addition to the special plane, Shunfeng Express also signed an agreement with Qinxi Airlines to use the dedicated belly compartments of its aircraft on multiple domestic routes.Responsible for the express delivery of Shunfeng Express between cities across the country.
Moreover, Shunfeng Express also signed an agreement of intent with Qinxi Airlines, and in the next two to three years, they will lease three to five more md82 cargo planes!
This agreement is a great joy for Qinxi Airlines.
When Qinxi Airlines was established, it not only received md90 aircraft from other domestic airlines, but also received some md82 aircraft.These md82 aircraft belong to short and medium range aircraft, and belong to the same level of aircraft as Boeing 737 and Airbus 320.It was also at the beginning that Huaxia cooperated with the American McDonnell Douglas Company. The predecessor of the md90 project, part of those md82 aircraft that were assembled in Shanghai.
Most of these md82 aircraft were put into operation in the mid-to-late 80s and mid-90s, and the earliest ones have been in service for fifteen or sixteen years.Although the flight life of an aircraft can reach 25 to 30 years, or even longer, after these aircraft have passed the mature period of use in the past few years, the maintenance cost and fuel consumption of the aircraft will gradually increase. is gradually reduced, so many airlines are constantly purchasing new aircraft.At the same time, the original aircraft are retired, even if these aircraft have not reached the end of their service life.
One of these decommissioned aircraft can be resold to other countries. Many African countries are gathering places for second-hand and even third-hand aircraft.There are.It was converted into a cargo plane and continued to serve.Many cargo planes operated by world-renowned large freight companies such as FedEx, UPS, and DHL Freight are refitted from retired passenger planes.
The md82 aircraft of Qinxi Airlines, due to many factors such as service life, comfort, and aviation materials, some of them have been in operation for a long time and are no longer suitable for passenger transport.So from the very beginning, part of it was transformed into a cargo plane to undertake some emergency cargo business for these industries under the Fang family.But with the passage of time, more and more md82s are facing the need of aging and decommissioning.
Replace these planes.First, it can improve the safety factor of the company's operations, and second, it is also related to the company's face and the confidence of passengers in the company.The reason why Singapore Airlines is famous in the international shipping industry is that it has the youngest fleet in the world!When Qinxi Airlines was first established, there was no way to put those md82s that had been in operation for more than ten years into passenger routes.And this can also increase the profit margin of these md82 aircraft, reduce flight costs, and free up routes for new aircraft.After Qinxi Airlines and Shunfeng Express reach this agreement, they can rent three new md90 passenger planes from Fengyuan Aircraft Leasing Co., Ltd. The group has three more aircraft orders, and there will be more orders in the future!
Of course, it wasn't all good news. When Fang Mingyuan arrived in the capital, a piece of news from Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group completely wiped out his good mood.Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group and International Aero Engine Corporation reached an agreement on the purchase of v2500 turbofan engines. Although Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group purchased 46 engines at one time, International Aero Engine Corporation only made extremely limited concessions in terms of price, and In terms of delivery time, Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group was not given any preferential treatment.
Although, Fang Mingyuan also understands that Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group is really not comparable to Airbus, another major customer of the International Aero Engine Company, and the two are not on the same level at all.It is reasonable for International Aero Engines to pay more attention to Airbus' orders.
However, the one-time purchase of 46 engines is already a big leap in quantity compared with Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group's previous purchases.The total value of the order including the engine and the after-sales agreement is close to [-] million US dollars, but the price of the International Aero Engine Company has not been adjusted as it should be, and it has only made some symbolic concessions, and there is no priority to supply Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group. Commitment, this surprised Qinxi Aviation Manufacturing Group, which originally thought it could save some costs in engine procurement. (To be continued..)