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 new airline may launch this year, the state-owned group that runs the province’s airports said. The carrier would presumably be based at Changchun Longjia International Airport. Changchun is the capital of Jilin.
In the case of the largest Chinese carrier, China Southern, the shift in fuel prices helped cut unit costs by about 7%, analysts at Singaporean brokerage UOB Kay Hian have estimated.
Hainan Airlines is negotiating with General Electric and Rolls-Royce for engines for the 30 Boeing 787-9s that it plans to order, even though it uses GE GEnx engines for 10 new 787-8s it has in service, an industry official says.
