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.
Xiamen Airlines has formally joined the SkyTeam alliance, and with it brings three hubs into the global group: Xiamen, Fuzhou and Hangzhou. With this new addition, SkyTeam now counts three Chinese airlines in its roster, one more than Star Alliance, and leaves just Hainan Airlines as the only one of the Big Six Chinese carriers to remain unaligned.
Cessna is widening its engagement with Chinese industry with an agreement to assemble Citation XLS+ business jets jointly with Avic general aviation subsidiary Caiga. A joint facility at Caiga’s base at Zhuhai in southern China will make its first delivery of a Citation XLS+ in 12-18 months, says Cessna CEO Scott Ernest. Cessnas assembled at Zhuhai will be delivered only to Chinese customers.
Aircraft movements for Shanghai Hawker Pacific show double-digit growth so far this year, which the business aviation services company regards as indicating steady expansion for the whole industry in China and the rest of Asia. “The business aviation community in China is finding its feet and step-by-step, support infrastructure is appearing at key locations and that will definitely enable continued expansion of the fleet,” says Shanghai Hawker Pacific General Manager Carey Matthews.
