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.
Qantas Airways Ltd. says it will order more aircraft within two months, adding to an order book that already includes 65 Boeing 787s and 20 Airbus A380s. The booming Australian airline isn't identifying the type of aircraft it wants to order, but it is known to be thinking of rationalizing its narrowbody fleet to a single type.
China’s airlines and aircraft industry should benefit from a government decision to restrain growth in the country’s civil aviation market, although Western manufacturers could see less demand from the Asian giant. Almost no new airlines will be allowed until 2010 at the earliest as part of a policy aimed at slowing rapid traffic growth that is straining infrastructure and the supply of skilled labor.
China will allow almost no new airlines to take to its overcrowded skies until 2010 at the earliest as part of a policy that is aimed at boosting the local civil aircraft industry and slowing rapid traffic growth that is straining infrastructure and the supply of skilled labor. In the latest of a series of policy statements aimed at restraining aviation, the civil aviation authority says it will also control -- meaning "limit" -- the growth of airlines that are already registered.
