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.
Robert Wall (Singapore), Bradley Perrett (Singapore), Michael Mecham (Singapore)
The competitive landscape in the 70-240-seat aircraft market is poised to shift as Airbus, Boeing and Embraer update their product strategies in the coming 12 months. The stakes are high not just for the manufacturers, but also for the engine makers vying for aircraft positions.
BEIJING—The aircraft maintenance business planned by Avic Defense will pursue civil as well as military customers, says company president Wang Yawei. Wang defines the proposed business as aftersales service and maintenance, including whole-life service. “In the past we’ve been weak in these segments,” he says.
The time may have arrived for the Singaporean aerospace sector to move up a notch by expanding its manufacturing segment into more risk-sharing partnerships. Maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), the dominant part of the industry, also has opportunities and it cannot afford to cease its continuous drive toward lower costs, says the Assn. of Aerospace Industries (Singapore) (AAIS).
