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 450 narrow-body airliners that China has signed for over the past two years should keep the country's airlines satisfied for the best part of a decade, according to Airbus and Boeing forecasts. But the Chinese carriers seem to disagree. Fearless of indigestion, the airlines would take more aircraft in the short term, if only Airbus and Boeing could supply them, Airbus China President Laurence Barron said at Airshow China two weeks ago.
A final assembly line that Airbus and local partners plan to set up at Tianjin, China, would replicate both the processes and the products of its Hamburg plant. The Chinese line's A319 and A320 aircraft should be indistinguishable from those built in Germany and France, the company said at Air Show China Oct. 31.
