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.
Local Chinese governments have paid subsidies greater than half of the net profit of budget carrier Spring Airlines during the past three years, according to the prospectus for the company’s current initial public offering of shares.
SHANGHAI – The Avic unit that is trying to develop a competitive commercial turbofan will begin seeking international suppliers in the second half of this year, with the aim of achieving global cooperation in its project. The search for suppliers will be central to the effort of the unit, Avic Commercial Aircraft Engine Co. (ACAE), to collect foreign technology in a field in which Chinese industry lags far behind the West.
The C919 158-seat airliner will achieve airworthiness certification at the end of 2017, state manufacturer Comac says, setting out a delivery schedule over the next few months for the airframe modules of the first prototype. Comac aims to roll out the first aircraft in mid 2015, fly it four months later and achieve airworthiness certification for the type at the end of 2017.
