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 switch may not, however, change the direction of Australian defense policy, because Prime Minister Tony Abbott himself has been closely involved in determining it.
BEIJING—Airbus is aiming at getting contracts for 150-200 A330s in the current Chinese ordering campaign intended to fill airline requirements for the 2016-20 economic planning period, says an industry official in China. The contracts will be tied to an agreement to open a proposed completion center for the A330 in Tianjin.
Airbus, Bell and Sikorsky are interested in the program, apparently teamed with Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, respectively.
