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.
Boeing expects a boom in international services from China’s secondary cities in the next 20 years, and has shifted its sales forecast for the country accordingly. Chinese airlines will need to introduce 5,260 commercial aircraft worth $670 billion in the two decades to 2031, Boeing says in its new forecast. Of these new aircraft, about 75% will be used for capacity expansion, compared with the global average of about 60%, adds the U.S. airframer.
An Aug. 31 story on the JDAM-ER mischaracterized the status of the agreement between Times Aerospace Korea and Boeing. The two companies ended their agreement to co-develop a wing kit for 2,000-lb. JDAM bombs, but Boeing intends to complete the work with other partners.
Airbus and the two Chinese partners in its Tianjin final assembly line have signed a framework agreement to continue the cooperation beyond 2016, the end of the current business plan. The agreement is not a final and binding contract; further negotiations will be held to clarify contractual details. Airbus, the Tianjin Free Trade Zone (TFTZ) and Aviation Industry Corporation of China (Avic) have assembled A320-family aircraft in Tianjin since 2009. The existing contract expires in 2016, when 284 aircraft will have been built.
