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 looks certain to become one of the world’s biggest low-cost airline markets, even though its budget sector is puny and will stay that way until the government removes substantial obstacles, probably over the next decade. Economically and geographically, the country is prime budget airline territory. China now has an average income that is about typical of the Asian countries where low-cost carriers have boomed beyond expectation this decade.
The Japan Aircraft Development Corp. will give priority to a commercial version of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-X military airlifter over development of the YPX airliner. It is possible that the civil version of the twinjet C-X, which has not flown, would have a stretched fuselage.
Philippine budget carrier Cebu Pacific will launch a A320 service between Manila and Osaka in November. The carrier has this year dropped services to Xiamen in eastern China and Hanoi.
