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.
Four Chinese government lessors have ordered 70 COMAC C919s and taken options on 60 more, the manufacturer and the customers said, indicating strengthened government backing for the project.
China’s appetite for pilots is likely to keep driving up the country’s already significant share of demand for flight training in Australia, an industry executive closely involved in the business says.
BEIJING—Four Chinese government lessors have ordered 70 Comac C919s and taken options on 60 more, the manufacturer and the customers say, indicating strengthened government backing for the project.
