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.
ATR, lacking agreement between its joint owners, does not expect to launch its proposed 90-seat turboprop this year, despite strong interest from its largest customers. In the meantime, the airframer’s engineers are still refining the design of the aircraft, which would extend ATR’s product range above the 70-seat ATR 72, says CEO Filippo Bagnato.
The Chinese government likes to make neat plans. One of the neatest is the policy of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) that the country should have three major state airlines, based widely apart, and that each should turn its home airport into its single major hub.
