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.
Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific will launch a A320 service between Manila and Osaka in November. The carrier has this year dropped services to Xiamen in eastern China and Hanoi.
Air China is no longer interested in buying China Eastern or any other airline, at least for the moment. Chairman Kong Dong says Air China doesn’t have the size, management skill or general staff quality to execute a merger. “We will do acquisitions only when we grow bigger,” he says. Kong, whose predecessor, Li Jiaxiang, is now the national civil aviation minister, says his priority is to improve Air China’s management.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries aims to become a master player in the production of commercial aircraft wings while separately seeking to be an integrator of its own complete aircraft. For decades, the company has built almost all types of major civil airframe assemblies, but it has now settled on just one as its key specialty, perhaps the most difficult: the wing.
