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.
China’s Minsheng International Jet, which is being built up from Citic General Aviation, aims to become the largest general aviation operator in Asia, partly thanks to its association with sibling Minsheng Financial Leasing. With a focus on aircraft management, Minsheng Jet is planning to set up outside of mainland China, beginning with Hong Kong this year. It also hopes to work with foreign operators to create a virtual global service network.
Leading Chinese business aviation company Deer Jet aims to open four to six fixed-base operations (FBOs) this year, adding to its current four. The new 2014 FBOs do not include one at Beijing, though Deer Jet already has the building for it. The company is not sure the Beijing operation can be opened this year. It does not identify the locations of the new FBOs, but Deer Jet notably lacks such facilities at Shanghai, Guangdong and Chengdu.
Comac may not become competitive with Boeing and Airbus even when the Chinese state company produces its next aircraft—a widebody intended for co-development with Russia—says the U.S. think-tank Rand, citing Western industry managers in China.
