Chapter 498

"First, if we want to go to war with this Cathay Pacific, then we must have an airline that can become its competitor."

"And currently, we only have one choice — Dragonair!"

Guan Zu held a bamboo whip and pointed at the share composition of Dragonair.

"Everyone look at this chart, Dragonair's shares are: CITIC Pacific 38.3%, Cathay Pacific 30%, Cao family 21.6% of shares, Swire Group 5% of shares."

Hmm......

This bamboo whip, an old actor.

It was originally when Gao Qiu saw his mother whipping his son who had poor exam results, and then replaced it with a stick, apologizing with a thorn on his back.

Then it became the top-tier magic weapon of the conference room!

One day the stick is in hand, thousands of miles of rapeseed flowers all bow their heads · jpg

Men's romance ~ yeah · jpg

"First is CITIC Pacific!"

"1985 Taifu Development Co., Ltd. was founded, the boss is 'Stock King' Xiang Zhiqiu; 1986, listed, the same year, CITIC acquired, obtaining 64.7% of Taifu Development's equity......"

"This company can be considered CITIC's bridgehead company in Hong Kong Island."

"Because the existence of Dragonair made Cathay Pacific feel like a fish bone in its throat."

"And at this time, with the acceleration of the return progress, Cathay Pacific also wanted to obtain the vast emerging market of the East, and in 1987, CITIC Pacific acquired 12.5% of Cathay Pacific's equity for 1.3 billion Hong Kong dollars, becoming the third largest shareholder under Swire and HSBC."

"Because of the restrictions of the British Hong Kong government, as well as the 'one route, one company' policy pushed by the British Hong Kong government, Dragonair could only apply for air transport licenses for routes with lower profits and less passenger volume, leading to its business difficulties; by 1989, it had lost a total of 2.3 billion Hong Kong dollars."

"Because the losses were too serious, several shareholders of Dragonair successively wanted to withdraw capital; at this time, Cathay Pacific took the opportunity to propose the acquisition of Dragonair, and in the end, CITIC Pacific became Dragonair's largest shareholder holding 38.3%, Cathay holding 30%, Swire Group holding 5%, and Cao family holding 21.6%."

"Then, Cathay Pacific, on the grounds of route interests, in the capacity of the second largest shareholder, obtained the actual management rights of Dragonair. And positioned Dragonair as an airline specializing in routes from Hong Kong to the mainland."

"That is to say, now the entire Hong Kong Island aviation is Cathay Pacific's world!"

"Cathay is responsible for international routes, while Dragonair is responsible for domestic routes."

Guan Zu spoke freely, straightening out the entire development timeline and making it clear.

Some of the data was collected by Mao Xiang Yang.

Gao Jin: "If we want to acquire Dragonair, how should we acquire it? If we want to get actual control, Boss Cao cannot be bypassed, and CITIC Group cannot be bypassed either. But looking at the analysis just now, Boss Cao is easy to talk to, but CITIC might not necessarily stand on our side."

Guan Zu nodded: "That is indeed the problem, so we need to solve it."

As for the Cao family......

Since Cao family is the founder of Dragonair, they must stand on the side of Chinese capital.

And why is Guan Zu so confident in Dragonair?

Because Guan Zu knows that the domestic side absolutely hates Cathay Pacific, and the loss of Dragonair is no different from a slap in the face; now Guan Zu wants to stand out and grab Dragonair, the domestic side will definitely support it.

And......

Guan Zu looked at the system panel.

Kowloon support rate 45%!

Hong Kong Island district support rate 56%

New Territories support rate 38%

Customers, they are all here!

As long as we can handle the routes, Cathay is dead!

The meeting lasted for more than an hour,

Mainly introducing the data of the two airlines, and unifying thoughts.

"Our next goal is this Dragonair."

"We might face the opponent Swire......"

"Agree!"

"Agree!" *n

Guan Zu turned off the projector,

"Alright, the meeting is over."

"Xiao Fu."

Xiao Fu: "Here."

Guan Zu: "Today, those citizens on the flight should have finished adjusting their jet lag; we can start inviting them to ATV for interviews. Before the acquisition, first give the domestic leaders a reason, and then add a block to Cathay Pacific."

Xiao Fu: "Yes."

Soon, Xiao Fu arrived at ATV, and the News Director came out to greet him.

Then they held a short internal meeting of the News Department to discuss how to report the matter.

Night,

Hong Kong Island was decorated with neon lights, colorful and brilliant.

Lantau Island, Tung Chung Village.

Eleven Sister and Yue Guang were eating dinner.

On the table, 3 dishes, stir-fried meat with lotus root, braised pork ribs, stir-fried green vegetables......

"Daughter, I won't be back tonight; you guard the house alone." Eleven Sister finished eating quickly.

"Mom, where are you going?"

"I'm going on a date~~~"

Yue Guang looked at her mother, who was dressed up beautifully, and was speechless for a while.

Today Taibao took Eleven Sister and Yue Guang directly to the Dragon Gate Group headquarters, found Long Jiajun, and besides being shocked that Long Jiajun was that 'stowaway,' Taibao directly criticized Long Jiajun.

Finally, Long Jiajun caught his cousin and at the same time expressed apologies to Eleven Sister and Yue Guang.

After this matter, Yue Guang felt that her mother was exuding flirtatiousness all over.

Pat forehead~~~

Just at this moment,

19:00, ATV News was officially broadcast.

Host Wen Huixin appeared.

"Dear viewers, good evening......"

"Tonight, I bring you a shocking piece of news. Today, passengers exposed that on a Cathay Pacific flight, a serious incident occurred of discriminating against citizens who cannot speak English, as well as mainland passengers who speak Mandarin."

"The following is the detailed process......"

"During the flight, the air conditioning temperature was low; a passenger politely asked the flight attendant for a blanket in Mandarin, but was mocked by the flight attendant in English as a mainlander...... then, they also mocked passengers who didn't even understand English...... many passengers protested angrily, but Cathay Pacific's flight attendants ignored them......"

Eleven Sister's brows were tightly furrowed, the chopsticks in her hand stopped in mid-air,

"This Cathay Pacific, how come they have no service awareness at all."

"I can't speak English; do I have to be discriminated against too, damn losers!"

Yue Guang: "Don't even mention it; a classmate of mine told me about a similar thing; just because a passenger couldn't speak English, they were made difficult by the flight attendants in various ways."

With this preliminary report from ATV News, it caused quite a ripple throughout Hong Kong.

Some citizens criticized Cathay Pacific's behavior for seriously violating professional ethics and the principle of equality.

Some neighbors were angry: looking down on mainlanders is one thing, but damn it, you also discriminate against us who don't know how to speak English?

Hong Kong Island has a large number of old citizens who haven't really popularized learning English; usually, chatting is also in Cantonese, various dialects, so not every citizen knows English.

This kind of behavior by Cathay undoubtedly offended this group of people.

There were also some citizens who thought that the act of discriminating against mainlanders not only hurt the feelings of mainland compatriots but also smeared the image of Hong Kong Island.

Now Hong Kong Island is not like before; after more than a year of "Knowledge Cup" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," the young people in Hong Kong who have received 'new-style education' are all more familiar with Chinese history, and also differentiated some young people's sense of identity with the Chinese bloodline, feeling that the mainlanders are all compatriots.

These citizens, naturally, were indignant at Cathay Pacific's behavior.

Of course...... there were also many elite citizens who felt they were British.

What compatriots?

Sorry, I'm English!

It's a pity that these banana people don't know that the British only treat them as second-class people, not even British.

(Picture: To Be Number One)

Half an hour later,

The night was deep, the editorial department of "Ming Pao" was brightly lit, and the editors were still working overtime.

Ling ling ling~~~

The editor-in-chief's office received a call.

"Hey......"

"Is this Editor-in-Chief Li of Ming Pao?"

"It's me."

"Hello, I am Wu Qianlian from the Five Star Group Secretary Office!"

"Ah?"

Editor-in-Chief Li had a jolt, Five Star Group......

This is the Great Demon King!

The one who will beat people into the hospital and pay the bill in one-stop service......

I don't obey the law, but I obey fists!

"Secretary Wu! Hello, hello!" Editor-in-Chief Li was extremely polite.

"Editor-in-Chief, I don't know if you have seen the news tonight."

"Is Secretary Wu talking about the Cathay Pacific slander incident?"

The media circle has a consensus; Guan Zu's free "Knowledge Cup," and also confronting Fat Peng, is definitely a leftist person.

And this matter of Cathay Pacific was obviously done by Guan Zu.

"That's right, Editor-in-Chief Li, this time I'm looking for you because of the Cathay Pacific matter. You also know that the nature of this matter is vicious, and Five Star Group hopes that your newspaper will help report it, using the format of a front-page headline, so that more people can understand the truth. This matter concerns the image of Hong Kong and the rights and interests of citizens, so please help, Ming Pao." Li: "No problem, Secretary Wu!"

He didn't dare to refuse either.

Secretary Wu represents Guan Zu's will.

Guan Zu's will, do I dare to resist?

If he resisted, he was afraid he would go to work with a pig-head face tomorrow.

30 minutes later,

A gangster visited Ming Pao and sent an envelope to Editor-in-Chief Li.

Editor-in-Chief Li opened the envelope and looked.

Whoa~ good guy!

5000 Hong Kong dollars!

Originally Guan Zu could have not given it, but he still gave it.

What does this mean?

Brother Zu respects us!

Brother Zu, loyalty!

!

Other newspapers also successively received calls and money, expressing one after another that Brother Zu is reliable, Brother Zu is loyal.

Early the next morning, the first ray of sunshine sprinkled on Hong Kong Island, and it was noisy in front of major newspaper stands.

"Shocking! Cathay Pacific discriminates against Hong Kong Island citizens!"

"The dirge of the monopoly industry: Cathay Pacific's arrogance and rudeness!"

"Cathay exposed for extremely poor service attitude......"

"Blood and tears accusation from Hong Kong Island passengers......"

And other eye-catching newspaper headlines attracted the attention of passing pedestrians.

"Cathay relies on being a big airline, so it doesn't take passengers seriously; now it actually does this kind of discriminatory thing......"

"Clearly a service industry, it should treat customers as God, but it treats itself as God!"

"Can't speak English, so you get mocked? The popularity rate of English in Hong Kong Island is only 41%......"

"Cathay Pacific has monopolized for too long, and has already forgotten that it is a service industry......"

One newspaper after another, verbally attacking Cathay Pacific.

Hong Kong Island media, the integrity is very poor.

Still, in the situation where Guan Zu gave money, naturally they opened fire with full force.

First, the newspaper content didn't report too much on discriminating against mainlanders, because the media knew that many Hong Kong Island citizens wouldn't feel the same way about the mainland.

So, they tried hard to pull hatred toward Hong Kong Island citizens, especially those who couldn't speak English.

Concentrated on reporting this part.

Used all kinds of fierce wording.

In a bustling tea restaurant, the walls were covered with star posters, and the fans were turning slowly.

Uncle Chen, wearing reading glasses, put down the newspaper, so angry he slapped the table.

"This Cathay Pacific, didn't expect it to actually discriminate against us too!"

Others echoed one after another,

"Exactly, they can speak English, so amazing."

"Damn it, can their parents speak English?"

"Damn it!"

On the bus, office workers walked in a hurry, still clutching newspapers in their hands.

Discussing while walking.

"Cathay Pacific is simply too much."

"Isn't it, if I speak English wrong later, won't I be discriminated against by them?"

"Taking a flight is disgusting!"

And by noon,

ATV used 30 minutes to report one after another citizens, about this time, and the service attitude problems encountered when taking Cathay Pacific flights before.

An old gentleman recalled angrily that just because he asked a question in Shandong dialect when boarding, he was met with the flight attendant's eye-rolling and perfunctory response.

There were also passengers reflecting that when serving meals, they deliberately put the meal down heavily, and there was no apology when the soup splashed out.

There were also passengers saying that during the flight, they felt unwell and pressed the bell to call the flight attendant; after a long time, the flight attendant walked over slowly, and when asked, the tone was stiff, without the slightest concern, and even after the passenger explained the symptoms, they questioned whether they were faking illness.

By evening,

ATV also reported new passenger complaints.

Because ATV gave a hotline number last night, many citizens exposed their own experiences.

A passenger reflected that after booking a special meal, they found it wasn't arranged after boarding; when asking the flight attendant, they got a mocking response, calling their request too "picky," and simply didn't solve it.

There were also several passengers mentioning that on the flight, the flight attendants were enthusiastic and thoughtful to foreign passengers, while the attitude toward them, Hong Kong Island citizen passengers, was cold.

ATV's successive reports,

Constantly new citizens stood out to expose,

Making countless Hong Kong Island citizens, from street corners to tea restaurants, offices, and every household, all angrily condemn Cathay Pacific one after another.

"Could it be that because it's a monopoly, so it feels it can do whatever it wants?"

"This isn't the first or second time for Cathay; ten years ago it was already this attitude, complained countless times, just didn't change."

Cathay Pacific side.

CEO's office.

"Bang~~~~"

Tang Baolin (Vice Chairman and CEO) looked at the TV, so angry he threw the documents.

He originally thought Five Star Group's revenge angle would only be 'discriminating against the mainland,' and Tang Baolin wasn't afraid of this at all.

The mainland counts for a fart!

Not painful or itchy.

As a result, Five Star Group actually found discriminating against Hong Kong Island citizens as an entry point.

And the reports on ATV were also true, because of the high-level, corporate culture reasons, leading to Cathay Pacific forming a stereotypical concept from top to bottom: Westerners are first-class, Hong Kong Island citizens who can speak English are second-class, ordinary Hong Kong Island citizens are third-class, mainlanders are fourth-class.

Tang Baolin didn't feel there was any problem with this......

The flight attendants also felt there was no problem......

Only those stubborn people felt there was a problem.

Tang Baolin quickly called the secretary.

"CEO!"

"Immediately contact the 'Hong Kong Newspaper Society,' requiring all newspapers not to report negative news about our Cathay."

Secretary: "Good, CEO...... but this might need a little money."

Tang Baolin: "Every newspaper, 10,000 Hong Kong dollars."

"Good, CEO!"

The secretary quickly went to handle it.

Called the president of the "Hong Kong Newspaper Society" and stated the request.

The president, who knew nothing, after hearing the first condition, patted his chest:

"No problem!"

After hanging up the phone.

The president let his assistant call the newspapers one by one and notify them.

"8,000 Hong Kong dollars, don't report Cathay Pacific's affairs anymore......"

Conscience price, 20%!

Then......

One newspaper after another directly refused.

"Sorry, can't do it!"

"8,000 Hong Kong dollars? I can't take this money!"

"Our newspaper has always been fair and open, and will absolutely not do this kind of covering up news!"

Everyone was full of righteousness!

The Hong Kong Newspaper Society president was dumbfounded!

What the hell?

Why aren't you greedy for money anymore?

Did water get into your brains!

(End of chapter)