Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has begun making production drawings for its MRJ regional jet and confirms that the aircraft is on schedule for a first delivery in the first quarter of 2014. The target was set a year ago after a major design change and is three months later than the schedule adopted when the program was launched in April 2008. First flight is due in the second quarter of 2012.
The pilot of a Henan Airlines Embraer 190 that crashed at Yichun in northern China on Aug. 24 accidentally flew the aircraft into the ground, according to preliminary results of the investigation by national authorities. The aircraft was flying normally when it crashed, the chief of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Li Jianxiang, said in a closed teleconference with the industry. The 190 scraped trees for 1,000 meters before crashing 1,200 meters from the runway. Li concludes that the pilot was trying to land without seeing the runway lights.
SkyTeam will tighten its grip on the air transport market of Greater China by mid-2011 with the scheduled entry into the alliance of Taiwan's China Airlines. China Airlines’ decision to join SkyTeam, announced Sept. 14, means that the alliance will have three of the six major airlines of Greater China, since China Southern is already a member and China Eastern has also declared its plan to join. Air China belongs to Star and Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific to Oneworld. Hainan Airlines is not a member of any alliance.
