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.
China Eastern has given a good hint of the direction of its future development, with high-level company visits to Easyjet, Ryanair and SAS. China Eastern Chairman Liu Shaoyong has checked out the three European carriers with other top executives, the carrier says.
W hat to do about Chinese airline overcapacity? As the carriers scrape along, with profits supported mainly by exchange-rate effects, they might be expected to sell surplus aircraft. But in China there is a big problem with that solution: The aircraft are generally overvalued.
Leading Chinese business aviation company Deer Jet aims to open four to six fixed-base operations (FBOs) this year, adding to its current four. The new 2014 FBOs do not include one at Beijing, though Deer Jet already has the building for it. The company is not sure the Beijing operation can be opened this year. It does not identify the locations of the new FBOs, but Deer Jet notably lacks such facilities at Shanghai, Guangdong and Chengdu.
