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.
Chinese airlines will enjoy 7.6% passenger traffic growth and buy 4,330 aircraft in the coming 20 years, Boeing says in a forecast that assumes infrastructure constraints and only modest liberalization. Uncertainties include the extent of competition from high-speed rail, which VP-Marketing Randy Tinseth says can only become clearer over time.
Bradley Perrett & Bill Burchell, Bill Burchell (LONDON)
India’s Air Works aims to expand rapidly into the country’s booming market for aircraft maintenance by buying foreign specialist operators and replicating their expertise at home. It sees the expansion strategy, already used with its purchase of British aircraft painting firm Air Livery, as the answer to a range of challenges: how to quickly gather expertise, avoid overloading management, lure new customers, and establish and keep a reputation for quality.
BEIJING—EVA Airlines offshoot Evergreen Aviation Technologies (EGAT) plans to work longer hours rather than add capacity to take advantage of its strength amid the downturn. A surge in demand for airliner cabin refurbishment, attributed to delays in the Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 programs, is also pushing the Taiwanese company to use its limited hangar space more intensively.
