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.
Aviation authorities in Indonesia have grounded budget carrier Adam Air on safety grounds. The grounding amounts to putting out of its misery a carrier that was running out of cash, had lost the use of most of its aircraft after missing lease payments, was struggling to keep up insurance that it needed to keep flying beyond this week and had suffered a string of accidents in its short life, including a major fatal crash.
BOC Aviation will buy two of Air Canada’s Boeing 777-300ERs and lease them back to the airline for 12 years after their delivery this month and next. It is the first contract between the two companies and expands the North American exposure of the Singapore-based lessor, whose expansion is driven by the powerful financial resources of its owner, Bank of China.
Mainland China will have 244 civil airports in 2020, up from 147 at the end of 2006, according to civil aviation administration plans. Currently, 52% of counties have an airport within 100 km (62 miles) or a 1 1/2 hour drive. That will rise to 75% in 2010 and more than 80% by 2002.
