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.
Airbus could start the year in a similar fashion to its 2006 finale, boosting its A380 order book by enticing existing clients to buy more mega-transports.
Mesa Air Group and Shenzhen Airlines are pushing into uncharted waters of the Chinese aviation market with a joint venture based on regional jets, high-fare aircraft normally considered better suited to rich countries than developing ones. Phoenix-based Mesa becomes the first U.S. carrier to form a strategic alliance to establish a new airline in mainland China.
Australia is making a surprise move to buy 24 Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornets as interim replacements for its much larger F-111 strike bombers, showing just how nervous it is about Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program. The expected A$3-billion ($2.4 billion) order through the U.S. Defense Dept. could cut Australia's requirement for F-35s, even though the country committed itself to JSF last month.
