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.
The Comac ARJ21 regional jet made its first flight on Nov. 28, eight months later than scheduled at its rollout a year ago, in a project that aims to make the first Chinese jetliner to go into commercial service. The first delivery of the initial model, the ARJ21-700, is now 18 months away, slipping from the previous 2009 target.
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes says he is thinking of taking the listed airline private. The company is the largest Asia/Pacific budget carrier, one of three or four that seem destined to control most of the market outside of Japan and China.
Indonesia has shelved plans to float Garuda, because of the global financial crisis. The airline was one of three state companies whose sale was approved by a parliamentary commission in September.
