Chapter 319 The Focus of the Celebration Party

"Director Theodore, can you tell us what the price range of an advanced airship like the Dawn airship will be?" After hearing what Director Theodore said about the rules that airships can be sold if they are used in non-military fields, most people breathed a sigh of relief, and someone asked.

Seeing that some people had taken the bait, Director Theodore replied slowly: "Everyone, I believe you also know that it is not easy to build such an airship that can cross the entire world. If it is the previous two generations of airships, it is okay, but the most advanced AU-3 airship currently has a cost of more than 60,000 pounds, and the selling price should be around 80,000 pounds."

When doing business with capitalists, naturally you can cheat as much as you can. Even if the actual cost of the Dawn airship is only more than 40,000 pounds, it will not affect Theodore's sky-high asking price.

But to be honest, even if the final selling price is really around 80,000 pounds, the aviation industry still has a lot of room for development.

The price of a ticket for the Dawn airship is as high as tens of thousands of dollars, which means at least 2,000 pounds.

Even without the gimmick of the first round-the-world voyage, it should not be difficult to keep the ticket price above one thousand pounds.

Anyway, at least for more than ten years, using airships to sail around the world is only the standard for the rich and the nobles.

For ordinary people, sailing around the world, except for taking a very slow cruise ship, may only be possible in dreams.

If the ticket price of an airship is one thousand pounds, an airship can sell 58 tickets, which is 58,000 pounds.

In this way, only two round-the-world voyages are needed, and the airship tickets sold can earn back the entire cost of purchasing the airship, and even make a small profit.

Even if the ticket price drops more seriously, there is at least a guaranteed minimum of 500 pounds. The ticket price of a voyage can also make a profit of nearly 30,000 pounds. In addition to the fees for various services provided on the airship, it is as easy for airlines to make a profit as eating and drinking water.

"Director Theodore, when will your institute be able to formally reach an external cooperation? To be honest, I already have a plan to establish an airline. If your institute allows, we can immediately sign an order for at least ten airships." A man dressed like a British aristocrat, after hearing the official external quotation of the airship, could not wait to say to Director Theodore.

Taking advantage of the heat of this round-the-world trip that has not yet dissipated, the ticket price of the airship should be able to remain above one thousand pounds for a while.

This also means that as long as the airline can be established and flights can be started sooner, the sooner you can become the first person to share the cake.

Although the current market for airship navigation is only for dignitaries in Europe, America and all over the world, as well as capitalists with huge wealth in their hands.

But the number of dignitaries and capitalists in all countries in the world is extremely terrifying, and they can fully support the aviation industry.

Especially with the development of the US economy, the connection between the United States and Europe has become closer.

Fleets traveling between the two sides of the Atlantic can be seen everywhere. If you can replace taking a cruise ship with taking an airship, I believe many dignitaries and capitalists in Europe and America are willing to do so.

More importantly, in addition to carrying people, airships are also good at carrying cargo.

With a maximum full load of 40 tons, airships have become one of the best means of small-scale transportation, and the speed is very fast, even ahead of trains.

Moreover, airships only need a piece of open space to take off and land. Trains not only need to build rails and train stations, but also need to maintain the rails frequently, otherwise the trains will derail.

Compared with these two modes of transportation, everyone present only feels that the previous two modes of transportation, trains and cruise ships, are simply weak.

Even some capitalists and dignitaries who have no plans to start airlines can't help but think of buying a private airship.

After all, airships really save time. With hundreds of people on board, it took only one month and eleven days to travel around the world with many detours.

If only dozens of people are on board and travel around the world at the fastest speed, it may not take a month without taking detours.

Under the conversation of everyone, this celebration party of the Aviation Research Institute, which was supposed to be a celebration party of the Aviation Research Institute, suddenly turned into a negotiation party between foreign capitalists and the Aviation Research Institute.

Director Theodore was relieved to see that many people were interested in airships.

Because according to Arthur, at least half of all the profits earned from the sale of airships will be invested in the Aviation Research Institute for the research and development and manufacturing of aircraft and airships.

What Director Theodore did not expect was that his sky-high price of 80,000 pounds was taken for granted by these foreign capitalists.

They did not even intend to bargain, which made Director Theodore think that the pound had depreciated.

You know, if the price of 80,000 pounds is considered, Australasia can make a profit of 40,000 pounds for one airship.

For every 50 airships sold, Australasia can build a super dreadnought. This behavior of spending other people's money to expand its own armaments is just one word, cool!

Are 50 airships really too many? Director Theodore carefully observed the people around him. He even had the illusion that aviation research was about building as many airships as possible, and these people would monopolize as many airships as possible.

In fact, this was normal. If the aviation industry could be completely monopolized, the profits earned would be much higher than simply opening an airline.

After monopolizing the aviation industry, at least the airship ticket price can be determined by itself, which is directly related to the profits of the airline.

However, this does not matter to Australasia at present, after all, only Australasia can build airships capable of traveling around the world at this time.

With such technology, Australasia has a monopoly in airship construction, at least in the short term.

Using this time to make enough profits for the royal consortium and the aviation laboratory is what Director Theodore is currently planning.

Well, Director Theodore is not greedy. If he can take advantage of this opportunity to create a budget of at least three million pounds for the aviation laboratory, it will have met Director Theodore's expectations.

Three million pounds requires at least 75 airships to be sold to the outside world to make such a profit.

But looking at the capitalists surrounding him, and thinking about the sensation caused worldwide after the news that Australasia intends to sell airships to the outside world exploded all over the world, Director Theodore felt that this number was not so exaggerated.

"Everyone, theoretically, our Aviation Research Institute is fully capable of mass-producing airships. However, it will take some time for us to officially cooperate with foreign countries, at least after we have made sufficient preparations. If you are willing, you can go to the Aviation Research Institute tomorrow to sign the relevant contracts for the purchase of airships, and watch the airship production line of the Aviation Research Institute, etc." Director Theodore explained with a smile.

"If nothing goes wrong, we should be able to sell the first batch of airships to the outside world after the Olympics. However, due to the limited production scale, the number of the first batch of airships should not be too large, and at most it should not exceed 20. But please rest assured that after we expand the production line, the second batch of airships will enter intensive production." Although Director Theodore wants to take advantage of the popularity of traveling around the world to sell a large number of airships to the outside world to earn enough profits.

But appropriate hunger marketing is also necessary. If too many airships are sold at one time, the production line will not be able to keep up, and the effect will be far less than hunger marketing.

Anyway, the purchase order needs to be signed in advance, but the production speed of airships is so fast. This can not only increase the desire of these capitalists for airships, but also make them more generous when spending money.

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