Chapter 263 The epic order that shocked the whole country!

Chen Juehua’s big pie called “county-level aviation” made the bosses of various airlines smell the scent of money.

You should know that most domestic airports are concentrated in prefecture-level cities with developed economies and tight passenger and logistics flows.

This can be seen from the 293 prefecture-level cities, which are almost equal to the 259 domestic transport airports.

However, at the county level, the number of airports drops drastically.

Once these bottlenecks are cleared, what awaits the airlines here will be a blue ocean market worth tens of trillions of dollars every year!

In the past, it is not that no one has ever proposed to build an economic sector of county-level airports.

Unfortunately, across the country, there are only four counties that can meet the daily passenger flow and conditions for building an international airport: Yiwu, Dunhuang, Manzhouli and Yanji.

Because these four counties are related to international trade and international tourism, they are either the world’s small commodity cities or the gathering places of world material cultural heritage, and the flow of passengers in and out is very large.

Most of the remaining 1300-plus counties have poor economies or lack characteristic industries, and cannot support the operating costs of an airport at all.

The appearance of this flying Rubik’s Cube has completely broken the difficulties of the previous “county-level aviation” from the perspective of technological innovation!

Building an airport requires tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, and this was immediately saved several zeros.

If you are a little more frugal, you can build a pocket-sized airport similar to a bus terminal that is large enough to accommodate the takeoff and landing of several Flying Cubes.

After all, it is a new type of electric-driven aircraft. As long as you have a big imagination, even if you build a helipad on the top of Mount Everest that can meet the requirements of vertical take-off and landing, I guess there will be people who are scrambling to get tickets!

So when Chen Jue announced these new routes on the PPT, the atmosphere in the entire conference room was like a king bomb dropped in a game of Landlord, and it was completely boiling!
The CEOs of various airlines who were originally still hesitating whether to place more orders, now all started to frantically report orders to Chen Jue, just like the old men and women who go to the vegetable market to bargain with vendors.

Airlines like China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, which are already well-funded, added thousands of aircraft in one go.

The remaining Air China and Sichuan Airlines have reported at least 900 and at most 700 aircraft.

In the final count, the order volume reached nearly 5000 aircraft, which is more than the number of civil airliners currently in service in the country.

Of course, such a large quantity is enough for the Magic Cube Group to digest for a while.

However, when it came to discussing the subsequent payment methods, these airline CEOs began to be hesitant in the end.

Everyone blushed as they discussed, “Um… President Jue! Don’t be fooled by the glamorous appearance of our airlines. In fact, none of us have much spare money.”

“That’s right! The entire aviation industry was hit hard by the epidemic in the past few years. We only have more than 300 billion yuan left on our account at China Eastern Airlines, and we still have to pay the salaries of flight attendants, pilots, and ground crew.”

“How about paying it in installments?”

Seeing that these bosses kept talking about their financial difficulties, Chen Jue’s face began to twitch.

It turns out that these old guys are desperately placing orders just to make a quick buck from a young man like him!
We will wait until the Flying Cube is actually put into operation and we see profit returns before planning to settle the balance.

Naturally, Chen Jue would not agree to such an act of getting something for nothing.

As a result, the two sides began to argue over the payment method in the conference room.

Finally, it was Mr. Tao from Air China who came forward and offered a compromise: “How about this! Let’s not delay Mr. Jue’s production. Let’s sign the contract first and pay 30% of the payment. When we sell our old planes later, we will pay a sum for each one we sell until the balance is paid off.”

Once this idea came out, the originally noisy meeting room finally quieted down.

After all, it takes time for both airlines and the market to respond to the upgrade of traditional passenger aircraft to the Flying Cube. Even if they want to eliminate all the Boeing and Airbus aircraft currently in service in China, they still need to find suitable buyers.

After all, there are more than 4000 aircraft!
The total value is several trillion RMB!

Even if the value of these traditional passenger aircraft will be impacted and depreciate in the future, we have to wait until the Flying Cube has completely conquered the market.

Just like when Steve Jobs released the first Apple smartphone.

It took five or six years from the launch of Apple mobile phones to the complete withdrawal of Nokia’s mobile phone business.

“Okay! Then let’s sign it according to this payment method. As for the delivery of subsequent models, each company will take turns.” Seeing that everyone had almost reached an agreement, Chen Jue asked the legal team to draft a contract on the spot.

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After signing the contracts with these civil aviation companies, the entire organizers of the Haizhu Air Show were shocked!
This year’s air show was full of surprises, with military attachés from abroad placing orders frequently.

More than 2400 billion worth of orders were sold at the air show just for arms and aircraft.

However, in the face of the huge order worth 2.5 trillion yuan thrown by the Magic Cube Group, more than 1000 exhibitors in the entire air show all became supporting roles.

Even when signing the contract, the central bank sent people to the scene to shoot the footage.

That evening, this clip was edited into the air show interview segment and broadcast on the 1 o’clock news with a length of more than one minute.

When people across the country saw this incredible order amount, the entire Internet was dominated by the key words “Flying Cube” and “2.5 trillion air show contract”.

“Holy shit, shit, shit!”

“Total order amount of 2.5 trillion?”

“Is this a plan to completely replace the country’s traditional large aircraft?”

“The Cube Group is about to take off!”

“This is just an order from a domestic airline. If it is exported overseas… (I dare not think about it)”

Such an astonishing order amount made netizens’ heads buzz.

In particular, the stocks of several airlines soared the day after the news was broadcast.

As for how these more than 5000 Flying Cubes put into private aviation will realize county-level flight routes in the country in the future, that is not something Chen Jue needs to worry about.

With giants in the commercial aviation industry such as China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines paving the way, what kind of procedures can’t be approved?
The only thing we need to worry about is what to do with the high-speed rail and EMU rail lines that have been invested heavily in China once the Flying Cube becomes completely popular.

After all, once this county-level route is opened, the first to be affected are ground transportation vehicles.

Just like the urban and rural buses that were popular all over the country back then.

With the changes of the times, private cars, buses, high-speed trains and bullet trains have become more popular.

The rural buses that used to run between cities and towns have gradually been eliminated from the stage of history.

Nowadays, when you go back to the countryside during the Spring Festival, even if you want to take this old bus, it is difficult to see many on the road.

(End of this chapter)