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.
Chinese airports handled 388 million passengers last year, the civil aviation administration says. That was up 16.8% on 2006, but the growth rate slowed from the previous year’s 19%. International passenger numbers grew faster than domestic numbers. More than a tenth of air travelers in China pass through Beijing Capital International Airport. It handled 48.5 million in 2006. -
Tiger Airways will this year add two Airbus A319s to its Australian operation so it can use airports smaller than those needed for its A320s, maybe including Sydney’s general aviation facility, Bankstown. Introducing scheduled jet services at Bankstown would be an almost revolutionary move in Australian commercial aviation because it would finally create competition for Kingsford Smith Airport, which handles almost all of Sydney’s traffic.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Joris Janssen Lok (The Hague)
Eurocopter and Sikorsky stand to benefit from Australia’s cancellation of its disastrous Kaman SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite naval helicopter project, with a competition for a replacement program likely to be launched within a year. More immediately, Australia will look for ways to upgrade and improve the availability of its fleet of 16 Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk naval helicopters to fill the gap before 22 to 24 new aircraft arrive next decade to replace both types.
