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 airport charges will fall 5% under a new table of prices to take effect on March 1. Charges for Chinese airlines’ international services will rise, however. The Civil Aviation Administration plans to create a uniform system of charges in the coming five years.
Japan Airlines will phase out its last 747 Classics in its coming financial year as it pushes ahead with its strategy of reducing the average size of its aircraft in preparation for greater capacity at Tokyo Haneda and Narita airports. Ten classic 747s will be withdrawn in the year from April 1, along with two 767-300s and six MD-81s. New widebodies will not fully replace the 747s either in number or seat count. The airline will introduce only eight widebodies: three 777-300ERs and five 767-300ERs.
China’s efforts to put the brakes on aviation growth appears to be having the desired ffect, with the latest figures showing extremely rapid but moderating growth rates. The country’s airlines carried 185.19 million passengers in 2007, 16% more than a year earlier, says the civil aviation administration.
