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.
Singapore Airport Terminal Services (SATS) posted fourth-quarter net profit, 10.2% higher than a year earlier at S$46.5 million ($33.5 million), supported by a 19.6% jump in group revenue to S$390.6 million. The strong performance was driven mainly by the full consolidation of its wholly owned subsidiary, Singapore Food Industries, which the firm acquired early last year, as well as improved business conditions in the aviation sector.
Investigators in Hong Kong, looking into the April 13 incident of a Cathay Pacific Airbus A330 that was forced to land at 230 knots (426 km/h), say in a preliminary report that the aircraft’s central monitoring system warned of control system faults with both Rolls-Royce Trent 700s before one became stuck at high thrust. The flight crew noticed fluctuations in engine pressure ratios during the climb after takeoff from Surabaya, Indonesia. Number 2 engine showed the greatest irregularity.
The capacity of Beijing Capital International Airport could be stretched by 7% with a decision due this year on how to employ the unused T3D satellite building of the facility’s vast Terminal 3. If T3D were devoted to domestic instead of international services, it would be able to handle 10 million passengers a year instead of 4 million, says a manager at Beijing Capital. The airport’s current rated capacity, 85 million a year, assumes that T3D will be used for international services, so 91 million is within reach.