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 is taking new steps to liberalize its airline sector by relaxing minimum fare rules and further encouraging the growth of budget airlines and new market entrants. Following moves to free up the industry announced earlier this year, the latest measures confirm suspicions that a wider government push to increase competition in the economy has spread to commercial aviation, to the detriment of the major incumbents.
Avic Engine, well into development of a technically conservative high-bypass turbofan, is pushing to replace fellow Avic unit ACAE as the supplier of a Chinese engine for the Comac C919 airliner. In doing so, Avic Engine, the main propulsion subsidiary of state aeronautics group Avic, is offering a more dependable and realistic way for China to accumulate early experience in developing, building and supporting commercial aircraft engines.
