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.
Airport capacity is a challenge for Indian aviation that may never go away; it is clear that in coming decades, India will need one of the world’s mightiest systems of aviation ground facilities. But the problem is finding land.
The recent chairman of Chinese airport operator Capital Airports Holding Co., Zhang Zhizhong, has been arrested, while a group of China Southern Airlines employees have also been detained over an apparently unrelated matter. Zhang is accused of taking a bribe in return for arranging a monopoly on a popular air route for a travel agency 10 years ago, before he took over at the airport company. Capital Airports Holding belongs to the CAAC.
The Indian maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry is expanding rapidly to meet the demands of its home airlines, raising the question of when it will begin moving seriously into the international market. And the question is when, not if.
