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Chapter 263: An Epic Order Shocks the Nation!

Chen Jue's 'County-Level Air Transport' pie in the sky made the heads of various airlines smell the scent of money.

You should know that most of the domestic airports are concentrated in economically developed prefecture-level cities with tight passenger and freight logistics.

This point can be seen from the fact that the number of 293 prefecture-level cities is close to the number of 259 domestic transport airports.

However, at the county level, the number of airports shows a cliff-like decline.

Once these bottlenecks are cleared, the blue ocean market, worth hundreds of trillions of dollars annually, will await these airlines present!

In the past, some people had proposed building an economic sector of county-level airports.

Unfortunately, only Yiwu, Dunhuang, Manzhouli, and Yanji can meet the conditions for daily passenger flow and international airport construction nationwide.

Because these four counties are related to international trade and international tourism, either they are 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 1,300 counties have poor economies, or they lack characteristic industries, and they cannot support the operating costs of an airport at all.

However, the emergence of this Flying Cube has completely broken the previous difficulties of 'county-level air transport' from the perspective of technological innovation!

The investment of tens or hundreds of billions to build an airport is immediately reduced by several zeros.

If you are stingy, building a miniature airport similar to a bus terminal is enough to stop several Flying Cubes from taking off and landing.

After all, it is a new type of electric aircraft. As long as you have a big enough brain, even if you build a helipad on the top of Mount Everest that can meet vertical take-off and landing requirements, it is estimated that people will sharpen their heads to grab tickets!

So when Chen Jue announced these new routes on the PPT, the entire conference room was like a king bomb being dropped in a game of Dou Dizhu, and the atmosphere was completely boiling!

The heads of various airlines who were still hesitating whether to place more orders were now like old men and women going to the vegetable market to bargain with vendors, and began to frantically report orders to Chen Jue.

Like China Eastern and China Southern, which are not short of money, they added up to thousands of aircraft in one go.

The remaining Air China and Sichuan Airlines also reported 900 and 700 aircraft on the table, respectively.

In the end, the total order volume reached nearly 5,000 aircraft, which is more than the number of civil airliners currently in service in China.

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

Only when talking about the subsequent payment method, these airline bosses began to be coy at the end.

They all blushed and discussed: "That... President Chen! Don't look at our airlines being glamorous on the surface, but in reality, everyone doesn't have much spare money in their hands."

"That's right! The aviation industry has been bleak in the past few years due to the impact of the epidemic. China Eastern only has more than 30 billion yuan left on its books, which is still to pay the wages of flight attendants, pilots, and ground crew."

"Why not pay in installments?"

Seeing these bosses talking about their economic difficulties, Chen Jue's face twitched.

It turned out that these old guys were desperately reporting orders, wanting to get a free ride from this young man!

They planned to settle the subsequent final payment after the Flying Cube was put into operation and saw the profit return.

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

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

In the end, Tao, the president of Air China, came forward and gave a compromise solution: "Why don't we do this! Let's not delay President Chen's production. Let's sign the contract first and pay 30% of the amount. After our old planes are sold, we will pay a sum for each one sold until the final payment is cleared."

As soon as this idea came out, the originally noisy conference room quieted down.

After all, from the replacement of traditional airliners to the Flying Cube, both these airlines and the market need a reaction time.

Even if they want to eliminate all the Boeing and Airbus aircraft currently in service in China, they need to find suitable buyers.

After all, that is a volume of more than 4,000 aircraft!

The total value is several trillion RMB!

Even if the value of these traditional airliners will be impacted and depreciated in the future, it will have to wait until the Flying Cube is completely rolled out in the market.

Just like when Steve Jobs released the first Apple smartphone.

From the launch of Apple mobile phones to the complete liquidation of Nokia's mobile phone business, it took a full 5 or 6 years.

"Okay! Then let's sign according to this payment method. As for the subsequent delivery of the models, let's take turns for each company." Seeing that everyone had discussed almost everything, Chen Jue asked the legal team to draft the contract on the spot.

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After completing the signing with these civil aviation companies, the organizer of the entire Haizhu Airshow was also shaken!

Although this year's airshow was full of surprises, foreign military attachés frequently placed orders.

Only in terms of arms and aircraft, airshow orders worth more than 240 billion were sold.

However, in the face of the huge order of 2.5 trillion RMB thrown out by Cube Group, all the more than 1,000 exhibitors at the entire airshow became foils.

Even when signing the contract, the Central Mother sent people to the scene to shoot material.

That night, this content was cut into the airshow interview segment and broadcast on the 7 o'clock news for more than 1 minute.

When the people of the whole country saw this heaven-defying order amount, the entire network was exploded, and the hot searches were completely dominated by the keywords 'Flying Cube' and '2.5 Trillion Airshow Contract'.

"Damn, damn, damn!"

"2.5 trillion order amount?"

"Is this going to completely replace the domestic batch of traditional large aircraft?"

"Cube Group is about to take off!"

"This is just an order from domestic airlines. If it is exported abroad... (I dare not think about it)"

Such an amazing order amount made the netizens' brains buzz.

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

As for how these more than 5,000 Flying Cubes put into civil aviation will realize county-level route flights in China in the future, that is not what Chen Jue needs to worry about.

With giants in the commercial aviation industry such as China Eastern and China Southern leading the way, what kind of procedures cannot be approved?

The only thing to worry about is how to deal with and cope with the high-speed rail and bullet train tracks that have spent a lot of money in China after the Flying Cube is completely popularized.

After all, the opening of this county-level route will bear the brunt of the transportation vehicles running on the ground.

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

With the changes of the times and the popularity of private cars, buses, high-speed rail, and bullet trains.

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

Now, when returning to the countryside for the New Year, even if you want to take this old bus, it is difficult to see a few on the road.