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.
The Chinese government has ordered A330s in bulk and will encourage—if necessary, direct—Chinese airlines to take them. Hainan Airlines has the best reason to comply.
KAI, South Korean partners, Airbus and the industry ministry will pay to develop the LCH civil rotorcraft from the Airbus H155. The defense ministry will pay to develop the LAH from the LCH.
Beijing may have to force reluctant carriers to accept allocations from the order, announced June 30, though Hainan Airlines and its affiliates will have stronger reasons than others for taking deliveries of what the Chinese industry generally sees as an outdated type.
