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.
Malaysia-based budget airline group AirAsia has deferred delivery of a second batch of eight Airbus A320s. The aircraft are now scheduled to be delivered in 2014 instead of 2011, the airline says. Since AirAsia also deferred in July eight A320s due in 2010, a third of the 48 aircraft it originally contracted to receive in the coming two years have now been delayed. AirAsia is the largest customer for the A320 family, with 175 ordered. Of those, 64 have been accepted.
U.S. regional airline owner Trans States Holdings has broken the sales drought for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet, signing a letter of intent for 50 of the aircraft with options on 50 more. Deliveries will run for five or six years, beginning in 2014, the year in which Mitsubishi Aircraft expects to deliver the first unit to launch customer All Nippon Airways.
BEIJING — Russian Helicopters soon will report early results from studies into a heavy helicopter that would be built with Avicopter and take the Chinese manufacturer into a new class of rotary-wing aircraft. The Advanced Heavy Lifter is being pitched as a civilian aircraft, but Avicopter will not rule out military uses (Aerospace DAILY, Sept. 24).
