Chapter 747 General Aviation
The two of them chatted about fighting games for a long time in the Sanda arena before turning back to this. Zhang Shengli was so urgent that he pulled Yang Xing from the Boeing negotiating table. Zhang Shengli said that this was related to the plane that Yang Xing talked about. He asked Yang Xing mysteriously. He heard that Yang Xing had to order more than 100 Boeing 737s for his low-cost airline this time. As the saying in the mall, wholesale has always cost more discounts than retail. Yang Xing's purchases are so large that he is considered a big customer who purchased from Boeing Wholesale. So, let them give some gifts and add a Boeing bbj business passenger plane to the order to make a big difference?
Yang Xing was angry and funny when he heard this, saying that Zhang Shengli is also a big boss with a net worth of billions of dollars, so why do you still want to take advantage of this? Tell him not to be foolish. Although the Boeing bbj passenger plane was born from the Boeing 737, the price of a single aircraft is close to 100 million US dollars, which is twice the price of its brothers. It is absolutely impossible for Zhang Shengli to take the opportunity to give it for free. Boeing's profit of selling aircraft is only more than one billion. Is it possible to give you 100 million yuan?
Yang Xing also gave Zhang Shengli a lesson on luxury business passenger planes. In fact, although foreign countries have both private jets and business passenger planes in the general aviation field, the market segmentation is completely different. Generally, private jets are small propeller planes that only make two or three people. The price is not expensive, and it is only equivalent to the price of a luxury car. Many people want to enjoy the fun of flying an airplane and own small private jets.
The domestic rich people actually like to take business passenger planes, which are the types of aircraft needed to save working time and long-distance travel. However, many rich people use this to make use of this. This gives people the impression that super rich people use business passenger planes as private planes. Boeing bbj business planes are targeted by Boeing's business aircraft market for large space and long-range aircraft. They were developed by GE after jointly establishing a joint venture with GE General Electric in 1996. BBJ means Boeing business jets.
The aircraft is based on the Boeing 737 and converts the cabin that can carry more than 180 people into a space where less than 20 people can be imagined. The luxury and comfort level inside is thick carpet, comfortable double rooms, and spacious shower rooms. These common facilities in five-star hotels can be seen inside the aircraft. On both sides of the lobby where more than a dozen people can hold meetings, there are luxury facilities such as restaurants, small meeting rooms, bathrooms, kitchens, etc., and even a bedroom with a comfortable large bed and shower room! It is simply a flying palace. In addition, the aircraft can fly more than 10,000 kilometers at a speed of Mach 0.8, directly complete intercontinental travel, reach hundreds of airports around the world, and achieve point-to-point business flights.
Such a large business aircraft is a high-end product even in the business aircraft market with a cost of tens of millions of dollars. Zhang Shengli actually wanted Boeing to give it away for free, and Yang Xing felt that he was really whimsical. Zhang Shengli was not discouraged when he heard it, but instead asked Yang Xing what he meant by "general aviation" just now. Yang Xing was a figure who became a businessman. He immediately heard that there was a play, so he asked him what he thought.
Zhang Shengli obviously did a lot of homework on this, and he kept memorizing the information he wrote down. The international aviation community generally believes that general aviation is other aviation service models based on the concepts of relatively "big aviation" such as air passenger transport, air cargo, military aviation and airlines. It sounds like a "small aviation", but it must not be despised by general aviation. Its scale and economic benefits are actually not small compared to "big aviation".
General aviation was first proposed by the United States. Because the aviation industry in the United States is the most developed, the population related to aviation is the largest. Generally speaking, civil aviation uses civil aircraft to engage in civil aviation activities other than public air transportation, which can be regarded as general aviation. Its scope is far beyond transportation aviation, including operating flights in industry, agriculture, forestry, fishery and construction industries, as well as flight activities in medical and health care, emergency rescue, meteorological detection, marine monitoring, scientific experiments, education and training, culture and sports.
There are 230,000 general aviation aircraft in the United States, accounting for 97% of the total number of US aircraft. 67% of the 610,000 pilots are general aviation pilots. General aviation aircraft are diverse, including various seat-class business aircraft, multi-purpose aircraft, light aircraft, helicopters, sports aircraft, etc., and with this, thousands of airports across the United States have driven it. Official flight, private flight, aviation sports, aviation tourism and aviation rescue have formed a huge cluster of peripheral and ground products, with an extremely large industrial chain.
The biggest feature of General Aviation is its low entry threshold, popularization and grassroots. Zhang Shengli said that not long ago, he was approached by a group of entrepreneurs with great skills. He wanted to use him to throw a stone to ask Yang Xing for directions. Because they all knew that Xinghai Commerce had some privileges given by the superiors, it made some small gains in air cargo. Yang Xing talked with Boeing about buying aircraft. The big orders for Yang Xing had long been spread. Although Yang Xing did not interfere with the specific internal affairs of Zhongxing Group, this time it involved a large order of tens of billions of dollars, he had to do it himself. Given that he is increasingly regarded as a market trend in the international business world, his every move has been paid attention to, and many people have the idea of following him to pick up cheap.
However, Yang Xing is now strong, and it will not work in front of him. If people in China want to have a good shade under the trees, they can only ask him to do things. They asked Zhang Shengli, a close friend of Yang Xing, to come forward, just to find out Yang Xing's words. They felt that Yang Xing was interested in intervening in the domestic general aviation industry. In order to join the layout early, they wanted to ask Zhang Shengli to make a move. Of course, Zhang Shengli was not in vain. Those people promised to thank him after the matter was done, so he quickly found a lot of information related to general aviation to supplement his knowledge. Now he talked to Yang Xing about general aviation with a lot of rules.
Yang Xing also lamented that he was different from the past and now he has become a tycoon in the business world. If there is any slightest disturbance, he can attract everyone's attention. He expressed his intention to enter the aviation industry and a lot of people came to follow the trend. Zhang Shengli was very knowledgeable about his own initiative to start a business for him. Finally, this trip came to accompany him to see the Olympics worth the fare.
But no matter how emotional it is, Yang Xing wanted to launch his own low-cost airline, of course, to do a deep study of the domestic aviation industry. Since Zhang Shengli, who represented domestic companies to inquire about his views on General Aviation, he still puts ugly words in front and does not let them be blindly optimistic. Although General Aviation is known as the second deputy wing outside the traditional transportation aviation industry, its economic contribution in the United States alone reached US$150 billion, creating more than 1 million jobs, and is a veritable national pillar industry, it is a different situation in China.
First of all, airspace control under the long-term domestic planning system tied up the hands and feet of general aviation. Domestic routes are controlled by the Air Force and the Civil Aviation Administration. They adopt a report approval system, which is long and inefficient. Even if Xinghai Airlines receives special approval, it cannot meet the requirements of allowing aircraft to take off and standby at any time. The opening of the sky is the prerequisite for the great development of general aviation. The use of airspace must be maximized and the restrictions must be minimized. This is a basic principle of airspace development and use followed by developed aviation countries.
Secondly, the harsh external environment also hinders the development of general aviation. Now it is very difficult for domestic enterprises to operate general aviation business, which is severely restricted by air traffic oil and airports, which are prominently reflected in a series of problems such as difficulty in applying for tasks and navigation, difficulty in using airports, and serious random charges.
Moreover, my country lacks a deep aviation talent base that has been nurtured by a century of flight in Europe and the United States. The proportion of domestic pilots to the huge population is too small every year, which has caused a large gap in flight talents. Many excellent pilots have also flowed out of the country, causing many airlines to lack pilot staff. How can there be talents left to general aviation companies? In addition, the neglect of ground services, maintenance and support personnel, the aviation industry itself requires high personnel quality, which further restricts the takeoff of general aviation.
There is no solution. Yang Xing once advised the central government with domestic experts that given the huge market potential of the general aviation industry, it is the only virgin land for industrial development that has not been liberalized for more than 20 years of reform and opening up, and there is great potential. As long as the national policies keep up, with the domestic strength in machinery manufacturing, it is unreasonable to watch European and American companies specialize in beauty, they put forward five reform opinions.
First, the country needs to increase its support for general aviation, establish a general aviation development fund, provide policy support, implement airport fee subsidies, reduce charging standards for general aviation, and reduce tariffs on imported aircraft.
The second is to vigorously carry out pilot training and general aviation talent education, reform the pilot training mechanism, and increase the intensity of pilot training. For the follow-up education of management, maintenance, flight and other personnel urgently needed by general aviation operating companies, organize training to improve the overall management level of general aviation management.
Third, we must adjust the general aviation market access measures and lower the entry threshold to encourage the whole society to invest in the general aviation industry. In the future, we should further reform the current general aviation market access mechanism.
Fourth, we must abolish the specific operational task approval method and reduce administrative interference. It is recommended that in addition to laws, administrative regulations and matters that need to be approved by the State Council, the State Administration of Civil Aviation and the Regional Administration of China should no longer implement task approval for general aviation operation flights, but implement post-supervision of their business activities in accordance with regulations to reduce interference to the normal operation activities of enterprises.
Fifth, we must establish a general aviation association to build a communication bridge between the government and enterprises, and also attract more talents and enterprises to join, so that general aviation can truly realize the grassroots aviation dream.
After listening to Ru Meng, Zhang Shengli woke up. He thought he had been preparing for a long time and persuaded Yang Xing to cooperate. He did not expect that the problems involved were so widespread and could not be solved simply by having funds. It was just that he was unable to get rid of the tiger now, so he could only continue to listen to Yang Xing's explanation honestly. Otherwise, the expensive Boeing BBJ plane he bought would only lie on the ground and could not fly into the blue sky.
Chapter completed!