Chapter 902 Private Jet and an Engine (Part 2)
Guo Tailai was surprised when he actually met a fan. But in fact, he was not surprised. Mr. T still had a lot of fans in the United States, especially the cars he designed in recent years, Hummers improved for the US team, and the feat of jumping down from space to break through the speed of sound. Among the Americans, Mr. T has a lot of fans.
To serve his idol, Mr. Martin took out 120,000 yuan of enthusiasm for his work. In just one day, he came up with a detailed analysis report with four matching plans for Guo Tailai. Of course, the plan for each manufacturer that Guo Tailai mentioned was also included.
The other four solutions are Mr. Martin's real suggestion. In fact, he does not recommend Guo Tailai to purchase business jets so scatteredly. From the perspective of driving and maintenance, multiple aircraft models require more personnel to learn driving and maintenance. From a financial perspective, this is actually not very reasonable for the operating costs of business jet companies. The personnel cost and maintenance costs are definitely outrageously higher than those of one or two aircraft.
When he learned that Guo Tailai himself had a Boeing BBJ2 business jet and a Gulfstream V business jet, Mr. Martin's first suggestion was to continue to use these two brands of aircraft, which could fully meet the needs. The second solution was to consider the Airbus more. After all, Guo Tailai and Airbus also had business dealings. The third solution has more models, and a Bombardier was added, and there was no other choice.
The plan that Guo Tailai himself suggested was the last one. It seems that the cost of purchasing a machine is the most economical, but in fact the cost of the later maintenance is the highest. If you want to make the maintenance costs back by relying on the operating expenses, it may be very difficult.
According to Mr. Martin's explanation, although there are many fewer optional models, for customers, especially Chinese customers, they do not have a lot of experience in business aircraft, so they will only focus on a few of the most famous brands. With more models, they don't know how to choose, and they have to let customers understand the performance of the aircraft every time. This is actually a very bad customer experience.
Guo Tailai accepted Mr. Martin's suggestion and chose a compromise method, Boeing Airbus plus Gulfstream three manufacturers. The large aircraft still chose Boeing's BBJ2, which is the same model as Guo Tailai's current, but the interior decoration is more business- and luxurious. The two intercontinental aircraft chose Airbus' acj319 business jets, which can take 19 people at a time, and are also luxurious business decorations. The remaining five small aircraft on domestic routes are purchased from Gulfstream. Of course, when necessary, these Gulfstreams can also fly back and forth to Europe immediately, and there is no problem with the range.
The price is not that expensive. They are all old customers and can get good discounts, especially Gulfstream, with six planes in front and rear. It is a waste of no discount. Airbus also had two of them at one time. Mr. Martin was good at bargaining and guaranteed a discounted price. Overall, the luxury decoration cost only 220 million US dollars. At this time, the US dollar was still relatively valuable. The remaining 300 million US dollars was enough to build the business jet company's stalls.
In fact, there is another more cost-effective solution, which is to buy second-hand planes or rent planes. But Guo Tailai doesn't plan to do that, and order all new planes. The airport construction will take at least one year, and the aircraft will be produced and delivered at that time, and it will be used.
Of course, Guo Tailai's requirement to go to the manufacturer to test flights is completely met, and he can agree on time at any time and be treated with VIPs. For such generous big customers, every aircraft company will probably receive someone at the vice president level.
Lin Jiayi and Mr. Martin signed an agency agreement, and Mr. Martin began to contact three aircraft manufacturing companies with great enthusiasm. Guo Tailai continued to learn how to drive the MiG29.
Guo Tailai's learning progress was very fast. After flying in the air with the coach for two days, he had already started to control the plane by himself. In fact, from the first day, Guo Tailai tried to control the plane smoothly in the air for a period of time on a two-seat trainer plane. After two consecutive days, he began to learn to take off and land under the supervision of the coach. The actual operation was successful, and the coach called the genius.
Little Finn called on the day of the accident in Las Vegas to greet Guo Tailai's safety in Las Vegas and whether he would help. There is obviously no need for Little Finn to intervene if there is a casino boss.
After Guo Tailai asked Mr. Martin to start purchasing the plane this time, Xiao Finn called again to ask Guo Tailai what he meant. It was not until Guo Tailai informed him of the fact that he had taken out a private business airport and wanted to set up a business jet company that he knew what was going on.
"Okay, so many airplanes are ordered, your helicopter's airworthiness certificate will be approved faster." Little Finn was very happy that Guo Tailai had placed so many orders, there were six in the United States alone, Boeing and Gulfstream are both American companies, which is a good thing, but Little Finn still regrets: "Why have to buy Airbus? Boeing gives you a discount, and the price can be obtained!"
"There are friends over there, so you always have to give some face." Guo Tailai explained with a smile, and said to Xiao Finn in reverse: "If you are willing to sell bones (b-one) or Valkyrie, I am absolutely happy to buy them at a suitable price. What about it? Learn about Ukraine, sell MiG 29s, remove the weapons and radar, and think about it?"
"g, you know that's impossible." Little Finn smiled bitterly again. He knew that Guo Tailai liked to enjoy the feeling of supersonics. This was not the first time Guo Tailai had asked to buy a B1B strategic bomber or Valkyrie. He actually wanted to change these two planes into private planes in a whim. He was speechless.
"Then I can only develop a supersonic passenger plane myself." Guo Tailai got the negative answer again, and also smiled bitterly: "I don't want Concorde or Tu 144."
"It's up to you." Anyway, Guo Tailai had said this a long time ago. Little Finn was no longer surprised. Instead, he asked curiously: "Which engine do you plan to choose? Which country do you think will sell it to you?"
"I don't know, I'll see what advice my R&D staff will give me at that time." Of course, Guo Tailai won't tell Xiao Finn anything now, but his latter question made Guo Tailai think of another novel product: "Hasn't Ronaldo already sold me Mt30? Maybe Ge will be moved by then, who knows?"
"Then you work hard!" Little Finn did not say anything. After all, if Guo Tailai wanted to build a civilian passenger plane, it would be very likely that only one or two engines would be used.
"Ah, when it comes to Luo Luo, I suddenly thought of one of their small engines." Guo Tailai suddenly laughed: "Fenn, thank you for your reminder. I think I can make something fun after I return to China."
"What is it?" Little Finn became interested when he heard it: "Can I know first?"
Chapter completed!