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.
China’s new aircraft systems company will focus on building up its technology at home before seriously entering the global market and taking on the likes of Honeywell and Thales.
Qantas, the largest airline customer for the Boeing 787, has reached a deal with Boeing to cancel 15 of the 65 aircraft it had on order, and defer the first 15 deliveries. The airline blamed the industry downturn for the order changes, which have been under negotiation with Boeing for months. Qantas said in February that earlier program delays gave it the contractual right to cancel the first 15 units, and earlier this month CEO Alan Joyce admitted that both cancellations and deferrals were being discussed with Boeing.
AirAsia expects its Thai operations to produce its first profit this year on a near 25% increase in passengers, and will mark this success with the launch of a second base for the country and new services to China and India. The Southeast Asian budget carrier also plans to further concentrate its Indonesian division’s network on international services and add new services to its AirAsiaX long-haul network.
