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.
BEIJING—Airbus is aiming at getting contracts for 150-200 A330s in the current Chinese ordering campaign intended to fill airline requirements for the 2016-20 economic planning period, says an industry official in China. The contracts will be tied to an agreement to open a proposed completion center for the A330 in Tianjin.
Airbus, Bell and Sikorsky are interested in the program, apparently teamed with Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, respectively.
BEIJING—South Korea is checking whether it can satisfactorily contract Lockheed Martin to modernize most of its F-16s, following rejection of the price that the U.S. government put on an upgrade that was to have been done by BAE Systems. The defense ministry’s Defense Acquisition Program Agency says it has asked for a U.S. government quote for a price for a Lockheed Martin upgrade and will decide how to proceed once it gets a response.
