China Taiwan NetAugust 31. According to Taiwan's "China Times" report, US Republican Senator Griffin led a delegation to Taiwan in April to force the sale of the Boeing 787 aircraft made in South Carolina to Taiwan, and Taiwan China Airlines took all the receipts. . China Airlines held an interim board of directors yesterday (30th) to approve the case. It will purchase 16 Boeing B787-9 passenger aircraft with no more than 4.608 billion US dollars (about NT 140 billion yuan), with 8 options to replace the soon-to-be-decommissioned aircraft. Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Taiwan's aviation industry bluntly stated that such an important aircraft purchase case was approved by the interim board of directors. "How urgent is it?" It shows that the pressure from the US has come to the door.
Taiwan's China Airlines convened an interim board of directors yesterday to approve the purchase of 16 Boeing 787-9 aircraft.
reported and analyzed that the history of China Airlines' past purchases is inseparable from the involvement of political power, and it has become more mesa with the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Pelosi. In 2013, when China Airlines launched the narrow-body aircraft replacement program, it faced the problem of choosing between Airbus A320 and Boeing B737. During this period, it was rumored that the United States had put pressure on it many times. Boeing 737MAX suffered consecutive major air crashes in 2018 and 2019. China Airlines took advantage of the opportunity to introduce Airbus 321neo passenger aircraft, but in order to explain to the United States, it purchased 3 B777F freighters.
The replacement case of China Airlines' A330-300 aircraft this time is regarded by the United States as a possession. Sure enough, the US made a move in April. When Graham called on Tsai Ing-wen, he directly stated, "We want you to buy the (Boeing) 787." Taiwan media noticed that although the English version provided by the Caiban website contained this "explicit" talk, the Chinese version was deleted. Cai Office spokesman Zhang Dunhan explained at the time that the Chinese and English versions have always been "polished". The report mentioned that after Graham returned to the United States, he reiterated in the interview that "I hope that Taiwan will announce the purchase of 24 aircraft as soon as possible", which has put considerable pressure on the DPP authorities.
China Airlines said at the time that the purchase case was still under evaluation. Why did you suddenly decide yesterday? China Airlines explained that the epidemic eased and the global passenger market continued to recover. According to Taiwan media reports on the 30th, Boeing (Boeing Co) confirmed that it has received an order for Taiwan's China Airlines 787 Dreamliner. It is understood that this batch of passenger aircraft is expected to start delivery in 2025.
Hong Mengkai, a member of the Transportation Committee of the Legislative Yuan of the Chinese Kuomintang, said that China Airlines, as a listed company, should be responsible to its shareholders, and the purchase of "16+8" Boeing passenger planes is the 24 that Graham requested. Tsai Ing-wen put pressure on it. He criticized that at the beginning, the top officials of the DPP authorities strongly denied it, and even responded to outside doubts with so-called "cognitive warfare". Now that the facts are in front of us, how can we justify it?
People's Party "Legislator" Cai Biru questioned, why is there such a turning point in 4 months? Who put pressure on China Airlines to buy it? It is unheard of for the DPP to use the hard-earned money of China Airlines investors to pay for its own face.
Taiwan's aviation industry believes that it is "no surprise" that China Airlines cooperates with the policy of the DPP authorities to buy Boeing , but the cost of these concessions will definitely be absorbed by China Airlines in the future. The aviation industry bluntly stated that as long as China Airlines is dominated by state stocks for one day, Cai Ban will have the final say in purchasing aircraft. Unless it is a life-threatening event like the Boeing 737MAX, even Hengchai will have to enter the stove.
According to Taiwan's "United Daily News", some aviation experts on the island believe that airline fleet planning is an art, and the level of consideration will be different due to the choice of each company's route layout planning. The event must be politicized. For China Airlines, the pain is unbearable.
Of course, it's not just the US that is pressuring the DPP authorities. Furuya Keiji , the chairman of Japan's "Japan-China Congressional Meeting", led a delegation to Taiwan last week. When he met with Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Qingde on August 23, he publicly expressed his hope that 's Taiwan high-speed rail carriage purchase case can be compared with Japan's Shinkansen. System cooperation, but this conversation was also silenced by Cai Office's press release, and the relevant content was not mentioned at all.
"China Times" today published an article entitled "Business Motives Behind the Successive Visits of US and Japanese Political VIPs to Taiwan" pointed out that recently, US and Japanese politicians have frequently organized groups to visit Taiwan, from the promotion of Boeing aircraft, the investment fund , to the high-speed train carriages, almost behind the scenes. All have commercial motives. To avoid disputes, Cai Ban even adopted "silence" treatment., Taiwan China Airlines purchased 16 Boeing Boeing 787 yesterday, is the most obvious example. (Editor / Li Ning, reviewer / Gauss)
