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 has become a rare airline target for a leveraged buyout, raising a risk for its rivals that the Australian carrier will emerge in a few years as a stronger and fitter competitor.
Boeing won't have to pay full damages for the lateness of Australia's Wedgetail program if the company delivers the airborne early-warning and control aircraft with the specified performance and more or less meets the revised schedule. For the quarter ended June 30, the company booked a $496-million charge for the delays to Wedgetail, including contractual damages.
The 450 narrow-body airliners that China has signed for over the past two years should keep the country's airlines satisfied for the best part of a decade, according to Airbus and Boeing forecasts. But the Chinese carriers seem to disagree. Fearless of indigestion, the airlines would take more aircraft in the short term, if only Airbus and Boeing could supply them, Airbus China President Laurence Barron said at Airshow China two weeks ago.
