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.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries hopes to offer an airliner of 93-150 seats next decade that would compete with the Bombardier CSeries and probably enter service just as Airbus and Boeing were fielding their next-generation narrowbodies. The aircraft, called YPX, would slot in just above the seating range of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ MRJ regional jet, thus forming the beginnings of a Japanese family of commercial jet aircraft.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries in the next decade hopes to offer an airliner of 93-150 seats that would compete with the Bombardier CSeries and probably enter service just as Airbus and Boeing are fielding their next-generation narrowbodies. The aircraft, called YPX, would slot in just above the seating range of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ MRJ regional jet, thus forming the beginnings of a Japanese family of commercial jet aircraft.
Cathay Pacific Airways is reshuffling services in response to fuel prices but isn’t altering its planned systemwide capacity. The Hong Kong carrier will shift capacity away from North America and toward Australia, which will get more flights, and Europe, which will get bigger aircraft. Flights to North America will fall by 10 a week, mainly by reducing the service between Hong Kong and Los Angeles from three to two times daily from Oct. 26. Cathay says it plans to restore the third daily frequency by steps next year.
