Return to 2000: Captain of the Great Powers

Chapter 361 Save Japan's Jiasu Airlines!
In the chairman's office of Air China, Yue Sheng was drinking tea leisurely, his eyes moved and fell on Xu Cang who was sitting indoors.Compared with the previous meetings, Xu Cang seemed out of his mind this time, which is very rare.

"You seem to be thinking about it?" Yue Sheng took the lead to break the quiet atmosphere, put down the teacup, and made a crisp crashing sound: "If you have something, we can talk about it later. For you, I can still spare some time."

Xu Cang's eyes narrowed slightly, and he calmed down his scattered thoughts: "It's okay, let's talk about it today, I'm going back tomorrow."

Yue Sheng said with a smile: "You kid, you look like you are in your 20s, and you have the same thoughts as people in their 50s and [-]s. It's not a good thing to be young and old, young people have to have the vigor of young people."

"You mean I'm old-fashioned?" Xu Cang retorted: "You should dye your hair, there are more gray hairs than last time we met."

"Is there?" Yue Sheng sat up all of a sudden, stroking his hair: "It shouldn't be."

"Do you still mind this?" Xu Cang was really speechless. Yue Sheng is usually unsmiling and looks very scary, but he didn't expect to pay so much attention to his hair: "Turn around and look in the mirror by yourself, and let's talk about the business first. time."

"Yes, yes, yes, you are busier than me." Yue Sheng held up a finger: "You think you should be more polite to me. Not long ago, Qin Xin asked me for a favor. What did I ask for?" I helped you without mentioning it, and from a certain point of view, you owe me a favor."

"Are you re-negotiating with Asiana Airlines about the joint venture route?" Xu Cang curled his lips: "It's just to scare people, what kind of favor."

Yue Sheng laughed loudly: "You can't say that. If I cooperate with her in acting, then I have to ask for some appearance fees. I don't ask for anything. You speak politely. You make me feel very embarrassed."

Xu Cang straightened his face: "I will try my best."

"You kid must have something hidden in your heart, and it's not very good." Yue Sheng shrugged: "Although I'm very curious, let's get down to business. When will the Japanese affairs be done?"

"Soon, it will start in September." Xu Cang stared at Yue Sheng: "Has the money been approved?"

"Don't worry, I always believe in hitting the mark when I do things. If you don't do it, you're done. You don't have to worry about money, but I want to receive the expected benefits."

Xu Cang nodded: "Naturally! However, according to our agreement, only the interests of Guoda Airlines are directly involved, otherwise I will exercise the voting rights of that part of the equity, and you only have the right to dividends."

"Okay, okay." Yue Sheng waved his hand: "If you can really make a name for yourself in Japan, then the conditions are nothing. The key is, what is your goal, JAL or ANA?"

"I would give Air China a seat on JAL's board."

Yue Sheng immediately sat up straight: "Does that mean that ANA has become the one that was abandoned? But, didn't I hear that you solved the Japan-US flight for them? I thought the relationship between the two of you is very good. "

"In the beginning, I did consider ANA. After all, in terms of market trends, ANA is more dynamic than the old JAL. It is relatively easy for ANA to attack JAL, but ANA has done some things that make me very unhappy. It just so happens that they During this period, enough handles have been sent to me, so why don't I follow the trend?"

Yue Sheng's eyelids twitched: "Can you tell me what ANA did to make you change your mind?"

"Full of lies, short-sighted." Xu Cang snorted: "I don't think the reason for the rise of ANA today is not because the management of ANA is more capable, but simply because JAL is worse. Having the ability is not very convenient for our future expansion.”

For ANA and JAL, it is too incisive to rely on peers to set off this sentence.

Yue Sheng became a little interested: "Then you also help them solve the Japan-US route, that route is very important to ANA, and now ANA is weak in international routes, if you make up for this shortcoming, After that, I’m afraid I won’t be able to control it.”

Xu Cang smiled and said, "Who said I was helping them?"

"Then the Japan-US route can still be a fake, ANA has started to promote it, and it will start sailing soon, right?"

"Really?" Xu Cang said indifferently: "Now in the world's aircraft market, whether it's direct sales or leasing, mainline aircraft with less than [-] seats are very popular, right? Many times, you have to queue up to add money."

Yue Sheng frowned, he didn't understand why Xu Cang suddenly changed the topic to the aircraft market, but he still followed Xu Cang's words: "Our civil aviation market is liberalized, and the demand for mainline airliners is skyrocketing, and the European market is also abnormal. It is booming, and under the action of the two growth points, the aircraft market is naturally in short supply. You also have airlines, and this kind of thing should be very clear.”

"So, if you want a large number of aircraft in a short period of time, you can only get them from other airlines."

Yue Sheng remained silent, he seemed to understand what Xu Cang meant, but some things were still difficult to understand, because there was no inevitability in the development of the things.

Why can't there be too many steps and too complicated when making a plan?

The main reason is that people are uncontrollable, and sometimes they do some illogical things.If there are too many steps and too many joints, problems are more likely to occur.

At least, if Yue Sheng's understanding of Xu Cang's purpose is correct, there are still many loopholes in this plan, and things may not develop in the direction Xu Cang expected.

"You want to get ANA's mainline airliner with less than [-] seats?" Yue Sheng asked with some uncertainty.

Xu Cang picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Why, can't it?"

"Of course not!" Yue Sheng said directly: "ANA is crazy to resell the main line passenger plane with less than [-] seats to others."

Xu Cang took a few sips of tea: "It's up to man, what's impossible?"

"I probably understand what you mean. There is indeed a small possibility that ANA will shift its business focus and resell some 737 or 320 aircraft. However, the possibility of this situation is not very high. They are completely You can take care of both sides, there is no need to make a single choice." Yue Sheng organized the language a little: "Also, even if ANA wants to sell or lease out the aircraft, it will not be single in the choice of partners."

Xu Cang shook his head: "No, you still don't understand, ANA will do what I think, as long as they have a little rational thinking as a human being."

Yue Sheng took a deep look at Xu Cang, he was convinced that Xu Cang had an unparalleled confidence when he said this, as if ANA was his marionette, he could play with it however he wanted.

"You are really scary." Yue Sheng didn't ask Xu Cang how to deal with ANA. At least Xu Cang still insisted that solving the Japan-US flight for ANA was just the tip of the iceberg of his plan, and there would definitely be other futures. Hands to echo his arrangement.

If I don't know anything else, Xu Cang will definitely not let himself suffer.

"Then what should I say now, the Class A shares with voting rights of JAL are not open to the public, and if you want to buy them, you need to get the approval of JAL's board of directors, which is not easy." Yue Sheng said: "Even if I have money here, If you are willing to spend money, you cannot become an important shareholder of JAL and enter the board of directors."

When JAL President Hideki Nagano and Xu Cang met for the first time to discuss cooperation, Xu Cang mentioned that he would be eligible to purchase [-]% of Class A shares.With such a condition, Hideki Nagano was hesitant, but in the end he still did not agree, which shows that JAL attaches great importance to core power.

Xu Cang said with a smile: "Who told you to buy Nikko's Class A shares directly, they definitely can't sell them."

Yue Sheng was stunned: "Then how do I get into the board of directors of JAL? You are so swearing, there must be a way to get JAL to agree to sell it?"

"Hey, no." Xu Cang rolled his eyes: "Buy Nikko's Class A shares directly, and there are such a large amount of them, don't even think about it."

This time, Yue Sheng jumped up and said, "Then you kid lied to me."

"How did I lie to you?" Xu Cang was quite speechless: "I asked you to prepare money, not to buy Nikko shares."

Yue Sheng's head was full of question marks: "I don't buy JAL stock, whose stock should I buy?"

"Stocks of Jiasu Airlines in Japan." Xu Cang said: "However, to be precise, it is not to buy shares of Jiasu Airlines, but to invest in Jiasu Airlines in some form."

"Jiasu Airlines?" Yue Sheng was completely stunned: "Jiasu Airlines? Is that the Jiasu Airlines that is full of old and antique planes and mainly operates domestic routes in Japan?"

"Yes, you have a good memory."

"Is this a compliment?" Yue Sheng yelled, "What are you doing with the money-losing goods of Jiasu Airlines? Do you lose money? Xu Cang, you really think I'm a bully?"

In the eyes of many civil aviation practitioners, Jiasu Airlines, just like their fleet, is full of the sense of twilight.Not only is the aircraft fleet extremely heterogeneous, but also the aircraft types are extremely non-mainstream, with McDonnell Douglas aircraft as the main ones.

Now the civil aviation industry recognizes that McDonnell Douglas Aircraft is a big pit, and as McDonnell Douglas was acquired by Boeing, the after-sales service of McDonnell Douglas Aircraft has become more and more perfunctory. heap.And Jiasu Airlines, which is mainly based on McDonnell Douglas Aircraft, should have the same ending.

Yue Sheng is an airline company, if he still can't see clearly, then he is really blind.

What is the difference between investing money in this kind of company and sending money?
"You think Jiasu Airlines is a loser, but some people are precious." Xu Cang laughed.

Yue Sheng was stunned: "Who's brain flooded, or who is blind?"

After finishing speaking, Yue Sheng looked at Xu Cang who was always smiling, and suddenly had a thought: "Could it be Nikko?"

"JAL was defeated by ANA in the domestic market, and there was no good way to deal with it, so we instinctively followed the previous handling method, and the acquisition was over." Xu Cang said with a smile: "ANA will definitely not be acquired, Then target the No.3 domestic airline, which is Jiasu Airlines.”

"Jiasu Airlines has been losing money year after year, but after all, it is still the third largest airline in domestic routes, and its value to JAL is still great." Xu Cang shrugged: "As far as I know, JAL's acquisition of Jiasu Airlines has already been completed. We're starting to talk."

Yue Sheng is extremely smart. When Xu Cang said this, he immediately understood: "Are you going to invest in a curve?"

"It is definitely not acceptable to directly buy the Class A shares of JAL, but after JAL is merged into JAL, as a condition for agreeing to be acquired, JAL will definitely reserve one or two seats on JAL's board of directors. No matter what Said that Jiasu Airlines is losing money, but not bankrupt, and the demand side is Japan Airlines, Jiasu Airlines has a certain bargaining chip." Xu Cang said with a smile: "If we can't get into Japan Airlines, we will enter through Jiasu Airlines."

JAL's acquisition of Canso Airlines is not like Korean Air's acquisition of Asiana Airlines, but a bit like Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas.

After Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, some senior executives of McDonnell Douglas directly transferred to Boeing's leadership.

Jiasu Airlines is not the same as Asiana Airlines. Its situation is far less difficult than that of Asiana Airlines. In addition, JAL needs to cooperate with Jiasu Airlines on domestic routes to check and balance ANA. Therefore, part of the management of Jiasu Airlines will join ANA. Almost a sure thing.

Xu Cang's trick of investing in curves is really ingenious.

Yue Sheng reacted for a long time, and in the end he could only smile wryly: "I am dazzled by your hand. However, if you want to join the board of directors of JAL as a representative of Jiasu Airlines, if you want to be safe, you must at least become the top two shareholders. You just now Also, the situation of Jiasu Airlines is not that bad, so why are they willing to give up the position of the company's former second shareholder?"

"I met Ji Chuan Yixin, the president of Jiasu Airlines, before."

"When?"

"After the forced landing in Tokyo Bay." Xu Cang asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"Crash landing in Tokyo Bay?" Yue Sheng was a little surprised: "So early, have you been planning this for a long time?"

Xu Cang stood up. Sitting for a long time made his waist uncomfortable: "Opportunities need to be grasped in advance. It's not that you think about it, and the opportunity will come just right. Fortunately, the leadership of Jiasu Airlines still has some They are aggressive, and they also know that after being merged with JAL, Jiasu Airlines will only become a tool of JAL, instead of being able to revitalize Jiasu Airlines with the power of JAL.”

"Jiasu Airlines was developed from a domestic air transport company in East Asia, and has a long history. It is normal for the leadership to have some ambition." Yue Sheng still has some understanding of Jiasu Airlines: "However, this is not related to what we are going to do. What's the matter?"

"What's the biggest problem with Jiasu Airlines?" Xu Cang asked.

"The plane is old and the models are mixed!"

"Ji Chuan can't solve this problem with all his heart, so he would rather merge into Japan Airlines, and hope to revive Jiasu Airlines. Even though they know that the possibility of success is still very small, they have no choice." Xu Cang said seriously. Said: "The management is still aggressive, which means it still has rational thinking. If it is already rotten, then they will only look at the interests. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to communicate with them. From According to the impression I communicated with Ji Chuan before, he is a person who can communicate. For them, it doesn’t make much difference who the new owner is, the key is who can save Jiasu Airlines.”

Yue Sheng took a deep breath: "You want to save Jiasu Airlines?"

"Can't you?" Xu Cang said with a smile: "This is an undeniable condition, isn't it?"

"But, you know." Yue Sheng was just about to say something, when he suddenly remembered something: "Could it be that you want to use the money from our National University Airlines to save Jiasu Airlines?"

Amid Yue Sheng's roar, Xu Cang left Yue Sheng's office.

Regarding Xu Cang's extremely impactful proposal, Yue Sheng was obviously still not ready to accept it.However, Xu Cang believes that this is only temporary, and Yue Sheng will eventually understand his exquisite plan, and the result will not change.

However, there is one thing that Yue Sheng really thinks right, that is, there are many forks in this plan, and what Xu Cang has to do is to remove these forks, leaving only the only main road, so that the development of things conforms to his own expected.

In order to achieve this goal, it is time for Xu Cang to perform some extra actions.

After moving away from Yue Sheng's office, Yue Sheng's growls could no longer be heard, Xu Cang walked to a corner and called Huang Jing.

It stands to reason that it is night in the United States, but Huang Jing still answered the phone quickly.

"Mr. Xu, it's really strange that you call me."

"Qin Xin's matter, thank you for your help."

Huang Jing said with a smile: "It's nothing, or to be precise, we should thank you more. Mr. Xu, the plan of conducting a dumping investigation on Bombardier that you mentioned works very well, and Mr. Lance Tamil is very satisfied. In addition, We've heard some interesting things about Airbus' A380, whether it's a coincidence, or Mr. Xu's amazing layout, you've blown our minds. Compared to just lip service, that's natural It's nothing."

At this time, Xu Cang suddenly asked: "If, I mean, if Korean Air still insists on buying Asiana Airlines. Will you really sell those five 747s at the list price as you said?"

As soon as these words were said, Huang Jing immediately fell into silence.

After a long time, Huang Jing said with some embarrassment: "Mr. Xu, I am the person in charge of a region. Such a problem is too difficult for me."

"Hahaha, just kidding, Mr. Huang doesn't need to care." Xu Cang said with a smile, "I want to consult with Mr. Huang about something. What is the current order status of Boeing 777?"

This kind of thing is actually a commercial secret, but this is strictly speaking, Huang Jing obviously has no such idea of ​​going online.

"Mr. Xu is interested in Boeing 777?" Huang Jing sighed: "The Boeing 777 of British Airways had a problem before, and the large wing broke, which must have had some impact on the sales of 777. Of course, if it weren't for Mr. Xu If we try our best to turn the tide, the current situation will only get worse. To be honest, we owe Mr. Xu favor."

"You owe me a favor?" Xu Cang said, "What about now?"

What Xu Cang said made Huang Jing somewhat at a loss as to how to respond, what he said was obviously polite.However, Huang Jing is not an ordinary person, so he followed Xu Cang's words and asked with a smile: "I don't know what Mr. Xu wants?"

Huang Jing neither agreed nor refused, but changed the subject and asked Xu Cang.If Xu Cang's request is not too much, it's okay to give him a favor.If it's too exaggerated, you can only refuse with the cheek.

Naturally, Xu Cang could see Huang Jing's small talk skills, and he didn't care too much: "Mr. Huang, has any airline canceled the 777 subscription recently?"

"There are two this year, and one at the beginning of tomorrow." Huang Jing told the truth: "What's the matter, Mr. Xu still cares about this?"

"Of course I care." Xu Cang said with a smile: "If you want to return my favor, transfer the order for the three Boeing 777s to me!"

(End of this chapter)