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 image should be one of a knight in shining armor—or perhaps a hundred of them, riding in from Montreal. Bombardier, offering potentially critical support to the C919 program, expects to begin signing definitive agreements of cooperation with Chinese manufacturer Comac before the end of the year. The deals could conceivably include support with the detail design of the C919, the Canadian company says. It is preparing a proposal to dispatch a team of engineers to help Comac, according to an industry executive.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Lee Ann Tegtmeier (Washington)
Chinese aircraft maintainer Gameco will try strict specialization as a way of driving up efficiency, allocating one of its sites to only A320 maintenance. The company is emphasizing scale as well as efficiency at its main base, at Guangzhou, eyeing a third-stage expansion even as it breaks ground on the second stage.
Comac forecasts that 30,910 commercial passenger jet aircraft of all sizes will be built by 2030, of which slightly more than 10% will be single-aisle aircraft of 100-200 seats sold in China.
