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.
More than anything else, SACC—an Avic unit in Shenyang dedicated to the civil market—has gained communication skills in its recent work with Western contractors on such programs as the Bombardier Q400 and CSeries, as well as the Comac C919, says President Yang Lei.
Evidence of strong and persistent downward pressure on Chinese airline yields is appearing in industry-wide profit and traffic figures, apparently driven by a weakening of the national economy. While Chinese mainland airlines carried 11.4% more passengers in April than they did a year earlier, their aggregate profits fell 28%, to 1.4 billion yuan ($228.3 million), according to figures compiled by analysts at UOB Kay Hian in Singapore.
TOKYO — South Korea will have a homogenous force of 16 upgraded Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion maritime aircraft by 2018 under an L-3 and Korean Air Lines program to refit eight aircraft that remain unmodernized. Separately, the South Korean navy is seeking 20 more maritime aircraft, which would considerably augment its anti-submarine capability.
