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.
Singapore-based budget carrier Tiger Airways has reported a profit of S$28.2 million for the year to March 31, reversing a loss of S$50.8 million a year earlier. The turnaround was mainly due to lower fuel costs and higher passenger numbers that took full-year revenue to S$486.2 million, up 28.6%. The airline is eyeing opportunities to launch new carriers within the region, says group president and CEO Tony Davis.
Tiger Airways says its low-cost carriers in Singapore and Australia carried 507,000 passengers in April, 45% more than a year ago. Average load factors increased 3 percentage points to 84%. In the 12 months ended in April, total passenger numbers hit a record 5.03 million, a 54% jump from the year before. The airline group, which has 19 aircraft, is expanding with seven more planes due to arrive in the fiscal year ending March 2011, says President and CEO Tony Davis.
Wuhan’s Tianhe Airport has begun work on an expansion program, with the aim of becoming the largest air hub in central China, even though the facility is probably the one that is most threatened by the country’s rapidly growing high-speed train network. Capacity is intended to rise to 38 million passengers a year from the current 13 million. Tianhe handled 11.3 million passengers in 2009.
