Three months later, outside Beijing Daxing International Airport.
Hainan Airlines' Airbus 330 flight squadron has a new young face, which is big news in the company. The company has a rule that captains cannot be placed directly on heavy aircraft such as A330. They must return to narrow-body aircraft to be promoted to captain before switching back to heavy aircraft. Therefore, all 330 captains, including Qi Yadong, have taken this path. By the time they are released as captains, they are already in their mid-thirties. In this way, Lang Feng has become the youngest member of the 330 flight squadron. But Lang Feng is also a familiar face at Daxing Airport. He has changed his uniform, changed his schedule, and changed his language when executing the checklist. Hainan Airlines is eager to recruit talents, and even gave him the European route that all captains like best. He returned to the state when he flew the Amsterdam to Beijing route, except that the schedule is tighter than when he was at KLM.
Everyone in the flight department of the company knew that Lang Feng was Zhou Qichen's old friend. The two of them were so familiar that they almost wanted to wear the same pants. They often went in and out of the airport together. Almost all colleagues who knew each other had seen them driving the same car in the parking lot. In the coffee shop or airport restaurant, you could see one of them and the other. Those who had eaten with them basically had the same feeling, that is, they felt like they were a light bulb the whole time. There was even a careful flight attendant who found that there were matching cartoon pins on the flight boxes of the two people, one was a cartoon cloud and the other was a cartoon rainbow. Those who didn't know the inside story just thought that they were good brothers, because Zhou Qichen always said to the outside world that he had lured Lang Feng to the company, and he joked all day that the company owed him a referral fee. He kept silent about what he used to lure him. As for why Lang Feng jumped from KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, where young people with high salary and low pressure would try their best to squeeze into the four-bar echelon, to a domestic airline, Lang Feng's answer was also very official, saying that he had family here. Considering his background, it was not surprising that his parents were in China, so no one asked anymore.
The one who worked with Lang Feng the most was Qi Yadong, the captain of Flight 330. This world is small. Qi Yadong initially wanted Zhou Qichen to modify Flight 330 to work with him, but Zhou Qichen didn't come, but Lang Feng did.
On this day, Qi Yadong and some of his flying friends were having dinner in a restaurant next to the airport. Qi Yadong received a WeChat message saying that the plane he was supposed to fly that night had a small alarm that could not be removed after the previous flight, and it was parked at the airport for troubleshooting, which would delay the evening flight. The company was urgently dispatching another plane, but the take-off time would be delayed by three hours. Qi Yadong and Lang Feng were going to fly this flight together, and they would also bring a second officer named Guo Ruiyang who had more than 300 hours of flying time. He was also sitting in the restaurant and eating with Qi Yadong and his friends.
After hearing this, Guo Ruiyang sighed: "What do you mean, Brother Yadong, can we still fly at night?"
Qi Yadong stood up and prepared to pay the bill: "Another plane was dispatched and it was delayed until after 12 o'clock. Well, I'm going to go home and lie down first. I wanted to have a quick meal and then go to sign in."
Guo Ruiyang sighed: "Brother Yadong is still the most informed."
Qi Yadong smiled bitterly: "What do you mean you are well-informed? I have to notify everyone one by one. Lang Feng might still be at home at this time. Tell him not to run away and wait for home." After he said that, he turned on the phone, intending to notify Lang Feng first, but the line was busy for a long time after he called.