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.
South Korea is hoping an agreement to liberalize air services with Macau will open an opportunity for its low-cost airlines to indirectly serve the much larger Hong Kong market. Budget carrier Jin Air began flying between Seoul and Macau this month with five weekly services, competing with Air Macau’s daily operation. Macau and South Korea agreed on Nov. 23 to remove restrictions on the frequency of flights between them, the South Korean transport ministry says.
The Chinese call it “daxing tumu”—being keen on large-scale construction. It seems that wherever one looks in this country someone is building a mighty new bridge, office tower, airport, freeway or aircraft hangar, more physical capital for the roaring economy.
The Bank of Communications has joined the line-up of Chinese state companies that are signing contracts for Comac C919 airliners, announcing an “order” for 30 of the 158-seat aircraft. The deal was signed by the bank’s leasing arm and follows contracts announced last month covering 20 C919s for Sichuan Airlines and 45 for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Comac now has contracts covering the supply of 195 C919s.
