At the end of the year, after the end of wcg, Henry was busy breaking the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

Of course, Henry’s wealth is strong, and the most direct way of destruction is to buy McDonnell Douglas at a higher price.

However, this proposal was immediately opposed by the U.S. judicial department. However, Henry knows very well that Boeing has made no little effort.

The U.S. Judicial Department’s objection is: "The Ares Arms Company is already the world's largest arms company, and McDonnell Douglas is also an arms company. If Ares Arms Company acquires McDonnell Douglas, it will form a huge monopoly!"

Henry sneered disdainfully: "Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, and the passenger aircraft market, which occupies more than 65% of the global market, is not a monopoly?"

For this reason, Henry did not protest to the U.S. justice and opposed Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. Henry thought to himself, it's a big deal, you can't get it, and I can't get it either!

However, the US government agreed to Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas!

The European side is naturally happy to see Henry's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. However, McDonnell Douglas is a US company, and the US government has the final say. Say you have a monopoly, what can you do? Is to favor Boeing, what can you do? Henry had no choice but to admit it. If you can't buy it, you can't buy it. It's a big deal to develop your own airliner! Henry believes in the technology of the Ares Arms Company, it will definitely be able to make a good airliner!

At present, there are three main companies in the passenger aircraft production field: Boeing, Airbus, and McDonnell Douglas.

The three major airliner manufacturers are essentially arms dealers. Boeing is a very powerful aerospace company in the United States, producing satellites, rockets, fighters, missiles, etc., and one of the five largest US arms dealers. McDonnell Douglas ranks a little behind, but it is also a powerful arms dealer. And what about Airbus? The whole is 100% owned by the European Aerospace Defense Corporation. You can see the name of the parent company. It can be called a "defense group". If this is not an arms dealer, it would be weird!

In fact, in the early years, Lockheed was also a major manufacturer of passenger aircraft, but after shopping with McDonnell Douglas, the last two were greatly hurt. Lockheed Germany directly withdrew from the passenger aircraft field.

The merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas is the biggest blow to Airbus, because the European company "Airbus" was at a disadvantage in the battle with Boeing. The combined Boeing will only be stronger, and "Airbus" will undoubtedly suffer even more. Therefore, Europeans accused the Americans of engaging in monopolistic competition and opposed the merger of the two companies. However, after negotiation and negotiation, until July this year, Boeing was forced to abandon the monopolistic supply contracts that it had signed with dozens of US airlines in exchange for European recognition of this merger.

Europe has no opposition. The US government supports the merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. It seems that it cannot be prevented. The unprecedented "Big Mac" in the sky was born, and at the same time it poses a serious threat to the Ares Arms Company in the field of fighter aircraft!

To be honest, doing the arms business is far less profitable than doing the airliner business. Henry himself runs an arms company. This is very clear. The Ares Arms Company’s net income is not high, only more than 2 billion U.S. dollars, and the money has to be invested in technology research and development, and the remaining money is not much at all. Of course, if you are in the arms smuggling business, then forget it, it is indeed super profitable!

An aircraft sold by the Ares Arms Company to the United States, perhaps sold to China, would have to be increased by 10 times. The Chinese party is also very willing to buy.

Henry is still making money honestly. Although weapons are sold all over the world, they are all under the control of the United States.

Boeing’s passenger jet profits are very high. This alone will bring Boeing more than US$1.55 billion in net income. Together with other income, it must surpass Ares Arms.

More than 40% of Ares Arms’ orders belong to the U.S. party, so it relies heavily on the U.S. party. Therefore, the Ares Arms Company must change.

The Ares Arms Company once acquired Northrop Grumman, the world's largest radar manufacturer. With its own technological advantages, it leads the UAV field! The "Global Hawk UAV" developed in the previous life is the most advanced in the world, and it has been imitated and never surpassed. The aviation routes of many countries around the world allow it to fly freely. Obviously, the Global Hawk UAV is trustworthy and is not afraid of random collisions.

At present, the project has already started, and research and development in 1995, Henry also invested a lot of money for this.

While developing the "Global Hawk UAV", Henry also formed a team to study "small UAVs" by the way to develop the civilian market, including **********, delivery drones and many more……

Using Northrop Grumman's technology to develop a delivery drone is a piece of cake. However, the cost of drones may be a bit high, but Henry does not care, Henry only cares about accumulated technology. Now the cost is high. After a few years of research, the cost will not come down, and then it will be launched on the market. As long as the price is right, it will definitely be super hot. Henry couldn't help getting excited when he thought of Nicholas Express using a large number of drones for delivery!

Henry felt that ********* could be commercialized at the earliest. At present, if you shoot a movie at high altitude, you are basically renting a helicopter. You must also know that the rental fee for a helicopter is not cheap at all. For large film companies, if you buy a few **********, it will be much more cost-effective.

Galaxy Film Company needs a lot of such **********.

On December 31, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas signed a contract to formally merge.

Henry looked at the news with a calm expression, raised the corners of his mouth, and smiled contemptuously: "What can we do if we merge!"

Henry began to step up the acquisition of other airlines at this time to enhance the strength of "American Airlines". Americans generally travel by car and airplane. The aviation business cannot remain sluggish. This is a rare opportunity. Henry will take the opportunity to develop "American Airlines" into the largest airline in the United States.

After the New Year, Henry set off a wave of acquisitions. In just one month, Henry spent $26 billion to acquire twelve airlines successively, until the US judicial department called a halt. The new "American Airlines" monopolizes more than 45% of the U.S. market and has become the "Big Mac~lightnovelpub.net~Fortune" among the airlines: "After some mergers and acquisitions, American Airlines has a market value of up to 28 billion U.S. dollars. Fortune 500 companies in the world! ! ! "

"Time": "Henry Williams is bold in acquiring a large number of airlines against the trend!"

"USA Today" stated: "The largest airline in the United States was born. Americans travel by plane, and at least half of them fly by Henry Williams."

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The new American Airlines has 51 airports, 2,800 aircraft, and 175,000 employees. The scale is so huge that it ranks first in the world.

Airliner manufacturers as long as they win orders from American Airlines are enough to make a lot of money, so that the world's major airliner manufacturers have rushed to the Williams Estate to visit Henry!

"Boeing is so awesome, what can it do if I don't buy its plane?" Henry said and couldn't help laughing.

(To be continued.)