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.
Deliveries of the 45 Airbus A330s in China’s latest order for the type will begin next year and extend until at least 2018, the manufacturer has said, adding that it fully expects Beijing to confirm an additional order for 30 so far covered only by a memorandum of understanding.
Thai carrier City Airways has agreed to acquire 10 Comac ARJ21-700s and 10 C919s through ICBC Leasing, greatly expanding a fleet that is currently composed of just four Boeing 737-400s.
Airbus has pulled out of a second Japanese military aircraft competition, saying it could barely compete for the naval UH-X helicopter order under terms that emphasized local production.
