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.
China Southern Airlines will order six Boeing 777F freighters in a move that it says is part of its development strategy. The aircraft, with a catalog value of $1.58 billion, will be delivered between 2013 and 2015, says the airline, adding that it will finance them partly with bank loans. The order, which has not been finalized, will be a new deal, not part of a previously announced bulk contract with the Chinese government, says a Boeing official.
BEIJING—Year-old GCA Technik, eager to exploit Chinese aviation growth, is on the verge of expansion that will roughly double its workforce over the next three years. The former maintenance department of Hainan Airlines is planning, or is evaluating, a plethora of new and expanded product lines: maintenance for engines, components and business jets; training for technicians; painting of narrowbody aircraft; and more hangar space for heavy airframe maintenance.
