Monster Industries to enter the private airline business?
Monster Industries was willful and bought an airline to sell planes for fun.
Monster Industries, that mysterious behavior that no one could guess.
In less than two days, the media shifted their focus from Red Seal Airlines' Chang Yuyue to Monster Industries' Skynet Airlines.
The name Skynet was very imposing. It had the unrealistic ambition to dominate the world's aviation. But what was the operation of not keeping a plane?
According to the relevant civil aviation regulations, if an airline wanted to apply for a commercial flight route, in addition to examining the airline's hardware qualifications, it was more important to be able to provide a commercial plane that met the aircraft regulations.
Buying a Boeing plane didn't mean that it could be put into operation immediately.
Before the plane flew, it had to go through a complicated and cumbersome acceptance process and establish a complete set of route logistics. Now that Skynet Airlines had sold all the planes in operation, it meant that they could be disqualified from these routes by the civil aviation department at any time.
After all, Skynet Airlines couldn't be a dog in the manger. Once the route was disqualified, it would be difficult to get the route again.
The newly established Skynet Airlines was almost an empty shell.
The plane was gone, so naturally, the aviation base at Tianfu Airport had to be canceled.
The plane was gone, so there was no need for a complete set of aircraft mechanical maintenance equipment in the base to exist. These things were packaged and sold to other airlines.
As the media swarmed to report and dig deeper.
They found that after Monster Industries bought Red Seal Airlines and changed its name, they immediately deployed a number of big moves.
For example, they moved the headquarters of Skynet Airlines from Tianfu City to Zhongyun City. For example, they sent dozens of delegations to Hua Xia's 23 provinces and several municipalities directly under the Central Government. It was said that they were going to take a large piece of land in each place to build something.
What exactly were they going to build?
According to the location of several provinces, Monster Industries' location seemed to be very random. They didn't consider the terrain or the height of the surrounding buildings.
That was not to build an airport. At first, the media was excited to speculate whether Monster Industries was going to build an airport. Now that the location of Shang Hai City was confirmed, the possibility of an airport was naturally eliminated.
It wasn't just about choosing a location. Logically speaking, the newly established Skynet Airlines had sold all the aircraft and mechanical maintenance equipment, so there was no need for the remaining mechanics and flight attendants.
Raising them would only be a waste of wages.
But the Monster Industry did the opposite, not only did it not lay off workers. He also raised the basic salaries of these people by a large margin and put out recruitment advertisements with great fanfare, inviting more mechanics and flight attendants from all walks of life to work at Skynet Airlines.
The media tried every means possible to interview the higher-ups of Monster Industries, but these people were tight-lipped and did not leak any information.
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A week passed in the blink of an eye.
The media had been asking questions for a week, but they still couldn't figure out the specific intentions of Monster Industries, so they shifted the focus of the news elsewhere.
This week, the outside world did not know the intentions of Monster Industries, but within Monster Industries, they had already completed several important steps in the layout of the aviation industry.
The headquarters of Skynet Airlines was relocated to Zhongyun. The location was in the east of Zhongyun City, in the wilderness 20 kilometers away from Longxi Beach. There was no sea there, but it was far from the city center. There were only large tracts of farmland and sparse houses located on the edge of the farmland.
The reason for choosing this location was very simple. Monster Industries had already obtained the commercial use rights of this land and was preparing to build an airport dedicated to the operation of exquisite aircraft.
Monster Industries planned to invest 10 billion yuan to build 50 demonstration airports in the country in the early stages. Zhongyun's airport was the largest because the headquarters of Skynet Airlines was also located there.
In the midst of the intense construction of the airport, the production center of the exquisite aircraft in the factory at Longxi Beach was also quietly completed.
After the completion of the production center, it had the ability to produce 50 exquisite aircraft per day.
What did 50 aircraft per day mean?
The famous Boeing Company only delivered 800 new aircraft of various types last year. Boeing had so many orders that they couldn't finish them all every year. Their biggest problem was how to expand their production capacity, and expand it, and expand it again.
Now, a new aircraft manufacturer was quietly established in Hua Xia. This manufacturer could produce 1,500 aircraft per month, and its passenger capacity was equivalent to two Boeing 737s. At full power, it could produce 18,000 aircraft per year.
Its annual output was 22 times that of Boeing …
Six exquisite aircraft had been assembled. Including the first one that was assembled, three of them were sold to the Air Force for their test flight to collect data and make changes to the airframe as needed. Of the other four, one was sent to the Tianfu Airlines Group to undergo the famous destructive static test. The other three were sent to the Civil Aviation Department for aircraft test flight.
As long as the static test and flight test passed, the exquisite aircraft would be able to obtain the aviation aircraft airworthiness certification issued by Hua Xia's Civil Aviation Department and officially put into commercial operation.
Originally, these two tests would take a long time. Even for the new aircraft of the Boeing series, the testing period was about a year.
However, several big shots of the Air Force said that they had to go all out and complete the testing of the exquisite aircraft as quickly as possible. Therefore, all the aircraft that were currently being tested had to make way for the exquisite aircraft. The testing department had to work overtime.
Aircraft were more expensive than gold. Boeing's large models often had a unit price of more than one billion yuan.
When these aircraft manufacturers developed a new model, they were usually only willing to take out one aircraft and send it to the relevant departments for testing.
First, the gentle avionics system was tested in a variety of weather environments. When these test flights were completed, the aircraft would undergo a series of rough tests.
For example, the interrupted takeoff test. This test would simulate the most severe conditions encountered when the aircraft took off on the runway.
The complete test included complete brake failure, the aircraft exceeding the maximum takeoff weight, tire rupture, engine afterburner failure, and so on. In these tests, the aircraft's landing gear would be subjected to destructive tests. Aircraft manufacturers often put one aircraft on the field. If the landing gear was broken, it would be repaired. If it could not be repaired, it would be replaced.
The exquisite aircraft did not need to undergo the interrupted takeoff test because it did not need to taxi on the runway like a traditional aircraft.
After the interrupted takeoff test, the aircraft would encounter extreme conditions in flight.
For example, hitting birds, encountering thunderstorms, or encountering heavy rain at low altitude. These tests could be simulated artificially. Hitting birds with high-speed air devices, launching slaughtered chickens to simulate. Lightning strikes were simulated with electric arc generators, and rainstorms were simulated with artificial rain curtains.
But no matter what kind of test it was, it would have an impact on the aircraft's body. Airline companies would test one project for one plane, and then they would repair the plane once.
Then came the extreme conditions encountered during the landing and forced landing process. After all the tests were over, the aircraft had been repaired many times.
The airline company would send the aircraft to participate in the static test.
The static test was also known as the "death test" because this test would use mechanical devices to test the limit of the force of various parts of the aircraft.
In this test, every inch of the aircraft's body would be torn and squeezed. It would be torn and squeezed continuously until the body's material fatigue value reached the limit.
After the test, the aircraft would be completely scrapped.
This was also the reason why an aircraft often took more than a year to complete the entire test process.
Others were only willing to use one aircraft and repair it while testing. Monster Industries was rich and sent four aircraft for testing in one breath.
One aircraft was subjected to destructive tests, and the other three participated in different test steps.
The runway takeoff and landing tests were omitted, and the test department worked overtime. Of course, the speed was unprecedentedly fast!
Special matters were handled specially, not only in the test segment.
If ordinary airlines disregarded the interests of consumers and sold all their aircraft in one breath, then the civil aviation department would definitely be livid and cancel all of the company's routes in one breath.
Not only did Skynet Airlines' routes not cancel, but they also expanded.
Shang Haifei's route to the capital!
Jinling Feiyang City's route!
Tianfu Feipeng City's route!
Not a single one.
These were all popular routes that all the airlines in Hua Xia were fighting for. To apply for these routes, it was not enough to rely on connections alone. It was also necessary to surpass the service capacity of several major national airlines.
Otherwise, if they squeezed into this route, consumers would vote with their feet.
Moreover, there were as many planes as the stars in the sky on these routes. Not only were there domestic airlines, but other airlines around the world were also on these routes, carrying passengers along the way. Even if Monster Industries wanted to apply, the aviation department would be full of doubts.
The way the exquisite aircraft worked was completely different from the traditional aircraft. Allowing the exquisite aircraft to enter the popular routes was also a big test for the civil aviation dispatch.
Ye Qing decided to do the opposite and apply for non-competitive routes.
The number of airports in the country was only a pitiful 100. Take Jiangnan Province as an example. Jiangnan Province currently had nine airports, but Jiangnan Province had a total of 13 cities, 26 county-level cities, and 24 counties.
Sixty-three large and small cities only had nine airports to serve them. There were also several prefecture-level cities that did not even have airports.
Not only was there a shortage of airports, but Jiangnan Province's airport routes also did not fly within the province.
The distance between the northern and southern end of Jiangnan Province was more than 500 kilometers. It was fine if it was connected to the high-speed rail, but if it was not, passengers would waste more than ten hours on the road. If there was a traffic jam during the holidays, they could only resign themselves to fate.
Therefore, Ye Qing's first phase target was the cities that did not have airports.
Without airports, there were naturally no flights. Skynet Airlines happily ate alone.
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