On the first flight of the Banshee Flying Machine, the backend statistics showed that only 22% of the seats were occupied.
Most of the passengers who had booked the tickets yesterday had chosen to refund them. The people who were curious enough to see what was going on in the morning were only a few.
However, after the first flight.
That day, tomorrow, and the day after.
Hundreds of thousands of seats, no matter where, no matter the flight route, were taken by the people from all over the country in less than half an hour.
Tongling City.
Shangtang County.
Yanzhou City.
Yifeng County …
Jiangnan Province, Insignia Province, Chuan Province, Ganxi Province, Henan Province …
Every Skynet Airlines ticket software indicated the location of the airport or the city where the temporary boarding passage was located. In a short period of time, countless people rushed to the location of the airport.
"I am a reporter from Mango TV. Dear viewers in front of the TV, we are rushing to the Skynet Airlines airport!"
"I am a reporter from Shanghai TV. Dear viewers. On the first day of the Spring Festival in Hua Xia, Skynet Airlines … "
"Now we have the latest news. Oh my God, everyone, you must not know, Skynet Airlines …"
"The latest news …"
Qianzhou Province was located in the southwest hinterland of Hua Xia. It was also the only province in Hua Xia that did not have plains. There were high mountains everywhere. At the same time, Qianzhou Province was also the poorest province in Hua Xia.
Most of the people living in Qianzhou talked about the environment of their hometown. Perhaps the first thing they wanted to say was not poverty, but the inconvenience of transportation.
In this day and age, poverty could be changed through labor. If there were no opportunities in the local area, they could still leave the mountains and go to the big cities to work and earn money. As long as they were healthy and willing to work hard, even if they had to move bricks at construction sites, they could earn a good income.
However, there were some things that could not be changed just by relying on labor and hard work.
For example, solving the problem of inconvenient transportation.
Qianzhou was full of mountains. Many counties were built in the middle of a few mountains, relying on a small piece of pitiful flat land to develop. If one wanted to go out of the mountains, there were only one or two mountain roads to choose from. If there was bad weather, the road might be temporarily closed.
Fangxiang County was a typical example. Wanxiang County was located in the southeast of Qianzhou and the west of Miao Autonomous Prefecture. The county had seven towns and four villages, with a total population of nearly 400,000. This small county was located at the foot of a mountain. If one were to look up from any part of the county, they would only be able to see the faintly discernible mountains in the clouds.
This was one of the poorest counties in the country, and there was only one road that connected it to the outside world.
There was no train station here, and the nearest airport was more than 300 kilometers away.
The county magistrate of Fang Xiang County was called Huo Hanzhang. He was 47 years old this year and had been the county magistrate for three years. For the past three years, his biggest wish was for the country to build a railway here.
Qian Province was poor, but Hua Xia had not given up on Qian Province.
Instead, Hua Xia spent a huge amount of money to build railways and roads in Qianzhou. In the 13th Five-Year Plan, Qian Province had a layout of five horizontal lines, two vertical lines, and one ring. For a city like Fangxiang County, which was trapped in the mountains, it was reasonable to build a railway.
County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang, who had been running around every year, could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Although the planned railway was still more than a hundred kilometers away from the county, it was only a railway with a speed of less than eighty kilometers per hour. However, as long as the railway made a turn in Fang Xiang County and passed by Fang Xiang County, they could build a railway station. Then, Fang Xiang County's economy would welcome a wave of boom because of this railway.
A few months ago, the Railway Bureau had just come to investigate whether Fang Xiang County had the conditions to build a railway.
The investigation team had been here for half a month and had gone through many mountains. It was either the geological conditions were unstable, or the tunnels needed to be connected were too long. Almost none of them were qualified.
However, County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang did not care about these. Difficulties were to be overcome. As long as the Railway Bureau asked, even if he had to personally lead the county's young and strong labor force with a metal hammer, he would make a passable tunnel.
With this kind of determination, coupled with the fact that Fang Xiang County's transportation situation was indeed too poor, the Railway Bureau could not be bothered.
The Railway Bureau had already shown signs of loosening up. They were prepared to overcome all difficulties and transfer construction teams with rich experience in mountainous terrain construction. They would spend three years to forcibly dig out a six-kilometer-long tunnel of hope on the mountain that had problems such as faults, gushing water, and rock bursts.
County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang wanted to wait for the official documents to be released before informing the people of the county about the news. He wanted to let the hundreds of thousands of people in the county celebrate the New Year.
The documents were released, but the inscription on the document stated that Fang Xiang County did not have the geological conditions to build a railway.
That night, County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang rushed to the Railway Bureau of Qianzhou a few hundred kilometers away. In the end, he found out that it was the Civil Aviation Administration that had ruined their railway dreams.
"We are building our own railway. What does this have to do with the Civil Aviation Administration?"
"Come, give me the Civil Aviation Administration's phone number. I, Huo Hanzhang, would like to ask them if they intend to build an airport for Fang Xiang County? "
"F * ck, I've been in Fang Xiang County for three years and I've never seen a plane fly over my head."
After venting his emotions, County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang could only return to Fang Xiang County with extreme disappointment and anger.
The reason he could go to the Railway Bureau so many times was because in the 13th Five-Year Plan, there was indeed a railway that brushed past Fang Xiang County by a few hundred kilometers. The core of the plan with five horizontal lines, two vertical lines, and one ring was to solve the transportation problems of the people in the surrounding areas.
County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang could not do anything about the Civil Aviation Administration's interference.
In the end, County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang was disheartened. Two days later, a company called Monster Industries sent someone over.
This company wanted to buy a piece of land in this small county and build a small transit center. The exact location of the transit center was still a secret. County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang had heard of Monster Industries before. He also vaguely knew the power of this company.
This was the first real investment company since the establishment of Fang Xiang County.
In his ecstasy, County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang personally received them. It only took two days for the location to be confirmed.
During the reception, Huo Hanzhang realized that these people did not seem to consider the geological conditions or the terrain at all. They directly found a small mountain forest that was smaller than a football field at the edge of the county.
Then, there was a boom boom boom.
This company forcibly invited a demolition team from the Railway Bureau to flatten the small mountain forest.
In a month, the small mountain forest was flattened. The company had also dispatched over a dozen strange-looking machines to work day and night.
Now, there was a concrete ground that was the size of a basketball court.
They also built an asphalt road that connected to Fang Xiang County's only road to the outside. Yesterday, Huo Hanzhang noticed that there seemed to be some new changes in the construction site.
They got a lot of double-layered thermal steel tiles from somewhere and put these tiles together into a temporary building that was about the size of a gas station. They also informed the only taxi company in the county that tomorrow morning, the taxi driver could come here to pick up customers.
"Pick up customers?"
"What kind of stupid customers are they picking up?"
County Magistrate Huo Hanzhang specially went to the construction site last night. He wanted to see what this company was doing.
Then, he saw rows of plastic seats and more than a dozen water dispensers in the makeshift steel tiled house.
There were also simple printed stickers on the steel tile wall.
— — Passenger Rest Area.
— — Please pay attention to your carry-on luggage before boarding.
— — The conditions are difficult, please bear with us.
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