Chapter 389 Seattle test flight

For Zhang Yunfeng, France is not the market that he rejects. Now, except for Dongchen aviation industry, which only covers one country of the United States because of its capacity problem, other Dongchen products have already landed in the French market and sold well. Zhang Yunfeng has no special views on France, and France has not brought any unnecessary hemp to Dongchen in its trade with Dongchen Annoyed, in this way, Dong Chen aviation engineering sells the engine to Air France, which has no substantive impact on Dong Chen. However, Zhang Yunfeng has a bottom line in his mind. He can sell the engine to Air France, but he can never sell the engine to Airbus, or cooperate with Airbus.

Hollande is prepared to come. He has even included Zhang Yunfeng and Dongchen in his calculation. He thinks that his trip will certainly bring enough international public opinion pressure to Dongchen, which will make him have to cooperate with Airbus on engine. At the same time, Zhang Yunfeng also reckons that he will not let Hollande return empty handed. So, first, use the argument of the best interests of the people to Mr Hollande took the lead and then moved on to allocate excess capacity to Air France.

Now there is no way for Hollande, and Zhang Yunfeng is still fighting while the iron is hot, saying: "Your Excellency President, as a president of a country, you are so concerned about the flight cost of the people. I think the French people will be very grateful for your loving attitude."

"I think if the French people can take the lead in enjoying the benefits of Dongchen aviation engineering, what they thank most is not me, but Dongchen aviation engineering, and you are Mr. Zhang," Hollande said with a forced smile

Zhang Yunfeng laughs and loses a few compliments. Hollande knows that the situation is over. At this time, he can't talk about Airbus any more. Otherwise, he can only get angry and complete the whole inspection process. Then, the leaders of the Zhonghai municipal government take over the delegation of Hollande. According to the plan, Hollande will visit and inspect the Zhonghai Zhang Yunfeng, a well-known enterprise in Zhonghai, escaped from the well prepared president.

Once the news of Hollande's investigation of Dongchen aviation engineering was reported by the Chinese and French media, although it did not cause much disturbance in the world, it is really a good news for the French. France is located in Western Europe, and the countries of the whole Europe are closely connected. For the Europeans, their access to many countries in Europe is just like that of the porcelain people in many provinces and one province in the porcelain country It's simple and convenient, and even international flights in Europe don't need to cross the ocean at all. In addition, the distance between countries is relatively short. Most of the planes they use to fly international flights in Europe are A320 and B737 small and medium-sized trunk airliners, which means that they don't need to wait for the mass production of Dongchen's medium and large thrust engines and get airworthiness certificate at all, as long as they have dc11 French airlines can achieve cost control in the whole country and in Europe, which provides a considerable discount for the citizens.

After Hollande finished his journey to China and returned to France, he was still angry. However, he found that his trip to China didn't come back without success. At least, the domestic people were very positive about the significance of his trip to China. The share of Dongchen engine quota to the domestic airlines was far greater than the share to the air Passenger car.

Happily, Hollande decided to maintain his key role in this cooperation. Once he returned home, he took the initiative to contact Dongchen, invited Zhang Yunfeng to France to meet with Air France, and hoped to sign a contract with representatives of domestic airlines at the Elysee Palace, the French presidential palace.

Zhang Yunfeng is not a fool. After Hollande's visit, he decided that he would never see any national leaders from Europe before Airbus was paid into his pocket, and would not take the initiative to find himself uncomfortable in these countries. So he implicitly refused Hollande's invitation, instead, he sent a negotiation team to France to sign a contract with Air France.

Zhang Yunfeng implemented the strategy of global uniform selling price for Dongchen hanggong's engine. Except for Dong'ou, han'guo and Australia, Dongchen engine will be sold to any country according to the uniform US dollar pricing. If the government collects tariff on Dongchen engine, it will be borne by the buyer. In fact, no country will be blind Dongchen engine levy tariffs, so the negotiation is only in one form. The two sides agree on the average daily supply, according to the intensity of the French route, to replace the aircraft of major domestic airlines in turn. As long as these conditions are settled, and then major airlines report their orders and pay down payment, the cooperation can be officially launched.

However, because this cooperation with Air France is Dongchen's second overseas market after the United States, Zhang Yunfeng added an additional condition for this cooperation, that is, Dongchen only accepts engine replacement for aircraft with service life of more than one year under Air France, and those with service life of less than one year will not be replaced, and once all engines are installed, they will not be replaced When it is allocated to the aircraft that meets the requirements, rigorous airlines will dismantle and install it on other aircraft without authorization. Once such behavior occurs, Dongchen will permanently stop the supply of complete engine and spare parts.

Senior officials of its parent company, EADS, angrily accused Dongchen of deliberately suppressing, but Zhang did not respond to their accusations at all. Instead, at this time, he announced in a high-profile way that Dongchen would join hands with Boeing to test three new engines of Dongchen avionics.

The news that the mid high thrust engine of Dongchen is about to be tested in flight once again gives a boost to the civil aviation system all over the world. For them, the significance of the engine of Dongchen is far more than reducing the cost. Because of the higher fuel economy, the aircraft equipped with the engine of Dongchen avionics has undoubtedly obtained a higher range. Once the mid high thrust engine of Dongchen is realized Now, once the Dongchen engine is hoisted, the current medium and large-sized airliners will have at least 40% of the maximum range improvement. Now, the maximum range of the aircraft used for cross ocean flight is around 1000014000 km. Without refitting the aircraft itself, once the Dongchen engine is used, the maximum range will be 14000 to nearly 20000 km. On earth, two The farthest distance between the points is probably only 20015km. If Boeing's 7478 is equipped with Dongchen engine, then its range can exceed 20000 km, and also exceed the maximum distance of 20015km.

What does that mean? It means that most of the aircraft, when flying to the existing international routes, can completely eliminate the stopover designed due to the limited range, and do not need to land in the middle and refuel the stopover airport. In addition, the engine of Dongchen hanggong has excellent endurance and continuous operation ability. In the future international routes, except for the stopover of passengers and passengers, other routes can fly directly.

A plane landing together will cause a very large additional cost. Take A320, a small and medium-sized aircraft, for example, to complete a take-off and landing, we not only have to bear the cost of the take-off and landing itself, but also pay a huge fee to the airport. A take-off costs four tons of fuel oil, and the price is nearly 30000 yuan. A take-off and landing, and an additional payment of 10000 yuan to the airport.

If you land once, just to refuel, this cost is very painful indeed, but if you have the Dongchen engine, this extra take-off and landing designed to refuel, will completely withdraw from the stage of history.

China's major airlines are boiling over the news released by Dongchen. It is also because China has long been used to going through the back door, trusting the relationship and not following the routine. At one time, the major airlines tried their best to contact with Dongchen, hoping to replace the medium and large thrust engines of Dongchen at the first time. Among them, China Southern Airlines is the most urgent.

The number of their international flights is the highest among the domestic civil aviation companies. In addition, they have received not only nearly 10 A380 super large airliners, but also many Boeing's a787 in recent years. These airliners have been used in the operation of international routes in Chengdu, and the most troubling thing for China Southern Airlines is A380. After several years of time precipitation, this big guy is no longer the same as before for passengers It is very difficult for China Southern Airlines to ensure the seating rate of more than 600 and 700 passengers at any time. The operation situation makes China Southern Airlines very distressed. Now, the only solution for them is to install Dongchen engine instead of stopping and replenishing fuel. After equipped with Dongchen engine, they can reduce the fuel load and further reduce the cost before taking off After equipped with Dongchen engine, there is no need to stop the fuel replenishing route. It can be said that cost can be saved everywhere. The overall cost reduction is beyond imagination.

In addition to the mainland airlines, the Hong Kong and Macao airlines can't wait to get Dongchen engine. When Zhang Yunfeng started the first batch of domestic dc11 engine replacement, he only chose the mainland airlines, which didn't take Hong Kong and Macao airlines into consideration at all.

The largest airline in Asia is Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong. After the acquisition of Dragonair, they continue to expand the size of the fleet, with a very rapid momentum of development. But before Dongchen launched the replacement of the mainland airlines, they were excluded, and they were not satisfied for a long time. Therefore, this time, the test flight of the large thrust engine in Dongchen started, they were in a hurry In order to get a certain share, and to their surprise, Dongchen's reply to Cathay Pacific is very simple and clear: "after the airworthiness certificate is obtained for the large thrust engine of Dongchen aviation engineering, it will take the lead to open the window for the replacement of mainland airlines, but this window is only for mainland airlines. The window opening time of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is to be determined, please wait patiently."

Cathay Pacific is very angry about this. Dongchen has made it clear that it treats Hong Kong Airlines differently. Therefore, it sent three protest emails to Dongchen in succession, and Dongchen's reply is still so calm and simple, with only ten words: "not only do you have a sense of superiority."

Cathay Pacific's subsequent email, Dongchen side did not give a slightest attention, and Zhang Yunfeng, all the experience into the test flight.

Raymond thinks that he is the original one, and Zhang Yunfeng must be the arrogant but powerful one. Zhang Yunfeng wants to test fly the medium and large thrust engine. Raymond says nothing and immediately brings the latest production line offline