Happy Tycoon

A group of seven people took a minibus from Yanjing City to Capital Airport in the northern suburbs.

The Capital Airport in 1988 was really rudimentary. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yang Jing really couldn't believe that the huge and prosperous international airport in later generations developed from this small terminal building.

At this time, the Capital Airport has only one terminal, which is Terminal 1, and this terminal only has ten boarding gates at this time.

However, the capital airport at this time is far from as many people as thirty years later. The capital airport thirty years later is like a super-large market. It can't be squeezed into a dog's brain. But now, Capital Airport can only be described by one word - empty.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Yang Jing couldn't believe that the capital airport was still so deserted. There is no way, in this era, flying by plane is still a very high-level thing, and there is no certain level, and ordinary people can't fly by plane at all. Even if it is a cadre at the division level, if there are no special circumstances, they will not be able to take the plane.

Because if you want to take a plane, you must buy a ticket with a letter of introduction from your unit, otherwise, there is no way. If the level is not enough, you cannot buy a ticket. Therefore, Huaxia Civil Aviation in this era is so deserted.

Of course, Yang Jing and his group are foreign VIPs, and of course they have the right to fly.

The terminal building of this era is also very colorful at that time. When you walk into the terminal building, you can see a huge banner that almost spans the entire terminal building, which says service first, safety first, Good job in civil aviation. and a series of big characters, very Chinese characteristics.

Compared with Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 of the later generations, Terminal 1 is really simple. At this time, the Capital Airport did not have boarding bridges or corridor bridges. Even for international flights, boarding can only Use the shuttle, then board the aircraft by the aircraft ramp. What surprised Yang Jing the most was that there was no security check in this day and age.

There is an obvious sign at the gate, reminding passengers that they can’t carry anything, and there is no security device. Although there are security inspectors standing there, they only ask you what is in your luggage, and they rarely open the box for inspection. It's far from going through the security check in later generations, wishing you could strip off your clothes for inspection.

Moreover, there was no restriction on boarding the plane with tea at this time. Yang Jing saw two cadres in cadre uniforms, each carrying a large cup of tea, passing through the security checkpoint, talking and laughing, waiting for the shuttle bus to pick up passengers.

What an incredible security check!

They arrived in front of the Trident passenger plane through the shuttle bus. That's right, the plane that Yang Jing and the others were about to take was the Trident passenger plane imported by China Airlines from the British de Havilland company in the 1970s.

In this era, although Huaxia also has Boeing airliners, they are all used for international flights and domestic regional airliners. Those with a shorter range use Il-18, An-24 and other old Maozi aircraft, and those with a longer range use this trident Halberd aircraft.

While working as a shuttle bus, Yang Jing saw many old-fashioned propeller planes such as Il-18 and An-24 parked on the tarmac. Although this kind of Trident airliner is not as tall as Boeing airliner, in this era, Trident airliner But jet airliners are of course much higher grade than those propeller airliners, so if many people can take a Trident airliner once, they can blow it for a long time when they come back.

Yang Jing's private jet could not apply for routes in China, so he could only take a civil flight to Urumqi this time, and Yang Jing saw his own Gulfstream IV on the shuttle bus.

This is a very helpless thing, okay? Obviously I have a high-performance private jet, but I can't take it.

But after a brief moment of silence, Yang Jing didn't care. Besides, it is actually a very interesting experience to experience domestic flights in this era. At the very least, people of my own generation will probably not be able to take this kind of antique plane in this life.

Wu Dawei, who has been by Yang Jing's side, seems to have seen that the boss is very interested in this place, but of course he also knows that his boss flew from the United States in a private plane. In this era when ordinary people can't fly , Being able to own your own private jet is simply unimaginable.

So Wu Dawei knew exactly what he should and should not say.

Boss, China is still relatively poor now, and domestic flights of civil aviation are like this. Please forgive me.

Yang Jing looked at Wu Dawei, shook his head with a smile and said, It's very interesting, I mean, it's actually a very good thing to experience these old planes.

After boarding the plane, the stewardess directly guided Yang Jing and his group to the front. There is no first-class cabin on this kind of domestic flight, but the seat at the front is the best, and the tickets they bought are also for this seat, plus there are six foreigners in a group of seven, of course the flight attendant needs special care.

After taxiing, the plane flew safely into the sky. After the flight reached a stable altitude, the flight attendant pushed the car over. Obviously, after learning that six foreigners had arrived on his plane, the captain also attached great importance to it. Specially told a stewardess to serve these foreigners.

In this day and age, foreign guests are very popular. Even if they are able to fly, they are leaders, but foreign guests are given priority in front of foreign guests. After all, China is short of foreign exchange in this era, and most of the foreign guests who can come to China come to invest in China. They are distinguished guests of China.

The coffee and green tea in the car are free, and the stewardess even brought down two bottles of Moutai.

This move made Yang Jing a little confused. He knew that he could drink on the plane, but what does Maotai mean?

Yang Jing really didn't know this.

Wu Dawei on the side explained: Boss, try our Huaxia national bar, which is provided free of charge on the plane. Since 1975, passengers have been provided with a bottle of Moutai for free on international flights, but now it is not a bottle of Moutai for passengers. The bottle of Moutai is gone, but it is provided for free. But we are obviously taken care of, and the stewardess brought us two bottles directly.

When Yang Jing heard this, he remembered that Huaxia Civil Aviation had indeed provided Moutai for free in the 1970s and 1980s.

At that time, passengers who took international flights of Huaxia Civil Aviation were given a bottle of Moutai for free. It was later changed to free supply and was not canceled until the end of the 1980s. At that time, a bottle of special Moutai was about ten yuan, which was nearly one-sixth of the monthly salary. However, because flying is already a sky-high price, many people think that it is not surprising that Moutai is served in the first class or even the ordinary cabin of the plane. At that time, there were not only Moutai, but also Hongbao orange juice, and Olympic Coke and other drinks.

However, Moutai is provided on international flights, and now the domestic flight also provides Moutai to my group, which is obviously a special consideration.

Yang Jing waved his hands and said in fluent Chinese: Miss, thank you very much for taking care of us, but we don't need this delicious drink now, just give us some drinks.

Yang Jing's fluent Chinese made the flight attendant's eyes widen in surprise. She really didn't expect this blond foreigner to be able to speak such fluent Chinese.

This is not a few years later, a Dashan who talks about cross talk suddenly popped up a few years later. Chinese people know that foreigners can also speak Chinese fluently. Now, a foreigner can speak Chinese so fluently, which is simply better than the sun. It is rare to rise from the west.

After a brief shock, the beautiful stewardess brought a few bottles of Coca-Cola to Yang Jing and the others with a smile, and then said goodbye politely.

Wu Dawei opened the Coca-Cola in his hand, took a sip, and said: Boss, in fact, five or six years ago, smoking was still allowed on the plane. It was only in 1983 that civil aviation stipulated that smoking was not allowed on domestic flights. Smoking is allowed, but smoking is still allowed on international flights. Now the little devil’s flight has banned smoking, so when the little devil comes to our Huaxia, he chooses to take the Huaxia Civil Aviation passenger plane, because Huaxia’s passenger plane does not prohibit smoking.

A few years ago, when I hadn't resigned, I went to Japan with my leader for a survey. At that time, after boarding the plane, the stewardess would provide us with cigarettes. I remember that there was a kind of white-haired girl. Just cigars are strong.

Yang Jing nodded with a smile and said, Actually, smoking is not banned on American flights yet, but I think it's coming soon. Smoking on planes is indeed a very dangerous thing, and smoking bans are very necessary.

The ban on smoking on American flights is indeed relatively late. This country once completely banned smoking on civil aviation airliners in 1977, but it was lifted in 1984 after a few years of ban. Domestic flights began to ban smoking, and then expanded to domestic flights within 6 hours in 1990. After 2000, all domestic and international flights have been banned. The stubborn country insisted on banning smoking on international flights until 2014.

Therefore, from this point of view, smokers living in this era are relatively happy, at least they can still smoke on long international flights. How can it be like later generations, you want to smoke on the plane? Let's die! Don't talk about smoking, you can't pass the security check.

Yang Jing thought that when he took Gege to Nanyun, the big box in front of the security checkpoint at Jinling Airport was full of lighters that passengers voluntarily handed over. What's even more exasperating is that these lighters are said to be resold by vendors at the airport. A disposable gas lighter is sold at the gate of the airport for three yuan each, five yuan each, whether you like it or not.

Not to mention, this business is really good. Although the airport security check will not confiscate your cigarettes, it will definitely confiscate your lighter. You need a lighter to light a cigarette after you get off the plane, right? After several hours of sailing, the passengers who are addicted to cigarettes have long been suffocated, but there is no fire in their pockets. Isn't this suffocating people? At this time, who would dislike a lighter that originally only sold for 50 cents and sold for 3 yuan or 5 yuan? It’s nothing to say, just pay for it, at least smoke a couple of puffs to enjoy yourself before talking about it.

In contrast, the smokers and passengers living in this era are definitely much happier than the smokers and passengers thirty years later.

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