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.
composite parts specialist CTRM is investing in new technology to position itself for future airliner programs while securing its competitiveness in the short term. “Goodrich would like to set up CTRM as a center of excellence for the nacelle composites,” says CTRM CEO Rosdi Mahmud. “For the next-generation narrowbodies we are going to move with our strategic partners—Spirit Aerosystems and Goodrich,” he says.
China will supply aircraft worth about $300 million to a new Venezuelan airline under an agreement signed by Avic International, the export branch of the Chinese aircraft-making conglomerate Avic. Avic International says it will supply 33 aircraft, including Y12Es utility transports.
Japan Airlines will retire all its Boeing 747-400s and Airbus A300-600s by the end of March 2011 under an accelerated restructuring plan aimed at achieving cost cuts that it previously hoped to achieve over three years. As a result of the cuts, the bankrupt airline will offer 40% less capacity internationally and 30% less domestically than in the year to March 2009. Fifteen international and 30 domestic routes will be dropped. When adding the routes cut last financial year, the reductions total 28 and 50, respectively.
