Delphi League (Delphi in Space Book 10) by Bob Blanton

Author:Bob Blanton [Blanton, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Delphi Publishing
Published: 2021-04-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Board Meeting – Sept 5th

“Let’s bring this meeting to order. I see that everyone is in Delphi City except for Admiral Michaels, Sam, and myself. Fred, how is our new airline doing?”

“It’s doing great. We’re adding one plane every three weeks as they finish their certification. Ticket sales are solid, people love the service and the short flights.”

“Los Angeles to Paris in just under three hours, who wouldn’t like that?” Liz asked.

“Is it making enough to pay for the planes yet?” Marc asked.

“Yes, the last three planes were paid for by the company, so our cash flow is starting to recover,” Fred replied.

“Anything else with the airline?”

“We’ve hired a marketing director. Marcie helped us find one from British Air. She will start next month.”

“What about a president?”

“I’m going to promote one of my people,” Fred said. “I just sent you the résumé. If you approve, I’ll make the announcement tomorrow.”

“Good; batteries and fuel cells?”

“We’re doing great. Next year, all cars sold around the world will be all-electric or fuel cell – electric hybrids. Several countries are talking about forced retirement for old cars.”

“We should come up with a conversion kit for the older cars,” Catie said.

“Why?” Marc asked.

“Style. People like the way they look.”

“Why don’t you work on that,” Marc said.

“As a separate company?”

“Hey, you still work for MacKenzies,” Fred squawked.

“Oh, so you think it’ll be a moneymaker.”

“Maybe, but it’ll probably be too small for MacKenzies to worry about,” Fred said.

“So I can start another company?”

“You get my vote as long as I get to be a partner,” Blake said.

“Go ahead,” Marc said. “Fred, anything else?”

“Nothing you won’t learn by looking at the monthly report for ten minutes.”

“Okay, then let’s talk about Onisiwo,” Marc said. “Catie, what does the probe show us?”

“No wormhole yet. We haven’t had much time to really study the system, but it looks like the Onisiwoens have a pretty well-developed space industry, even without gravity drives. We detect at least two space stations in their asteroid belt and two around the planet. Their planet is on the opposite side of their sun from the probe, so we can’t really tell that much yet.”

“Are the Onisiwoens ready to go home?”

“Definitely,” Liz said. “They’re being polite, but they are a bit antsy. I think they’re starting to wonder what’s taking so long.”

“Well, we didn’t want to head that way until we had a probe in place, and we have been busy getting the Aperanjens settled in. Catie are you up for captaining the Roebuck to Onisiwo?”

“Sure. Uncle Blake said that was your plan. It’ll be about as interesting as what I’m doing now,” Catie said.

“It’s not all about having fun,” Marc scolded.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean it that way,” Catie said. “I’m just not doing anything that requires me to be here except being hospitality director for the Aperanjens.”

“Liz, I assume you can step in there,” Marc said.

“Sure.”

“Okay, back to normal business. Kal, how’s the real-estate business?” Marc asked.

“Hey, my guys are happy,” Kal said. “You have to ask Fred for the details.

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