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.
The head of Airbus’s Chinese operation is optimistic that a dispute over European environmental regulation will not force the company to find new buyers for aircraft being blocked by Beijing. If necessary, Airbus could easily find new customers for 35 A330s that the government refuses to authorize, since demand for the type is strong, said Laurence Barron, Airbus’s president for China during this week's International Air Transport Association annual general meeting. However, he added, “My own view is that we will not get to that stage.”
Airbus and Chinese manufacturer Avic have begun negotiations to keep operating the A320 final assembly line at Tianjin after their current agreement expires in 2016.
