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 southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is rapidly developing intercontinental air links, to the detriment of adjacent Hong Kong and that self-governing city’s major carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways.
Air China says it will employ forthcoming Boeing 787-9s on services from Beijing to Rome and Frankfurt, replacing Airbus A330-200s and 777-300ERs, respectively.
If the MRJ can be sold at 10 a month and prices close to those in the original business plan, the economy of running production facilities at twice the planned rate and at their limit should go far to offset the program’s development overruns.
