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 parent of a defunct Chinese airline is suing the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) for allegedly grounding the carrier without proper reason, resulting in its bankruptcy and takeover by Air China. Travel agency East Star Group has told a court in Guangzhou that its East Star Airlines should not have been grounded, because it had passed a relevant safety inspection.
Chinese logistics group Shenzhen International has agreed to buy a quarter of the stock of Shenzhen Airlines through a subsidiary, giving it a 49% share that cements state control of the carrier. Air China, with which Shenzhen Airlines’ operations are partly integrated, bought 51% of the carrier’s shares last year. Shenzhen International is itself 49% owned by the government of Shenzhen, a large and economically strong city near Hong Kong, while Air China is majority owned by the central government.
David A. Fulghum (Washington), Bill Sweetman (Washington), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
Beijing continues to reveal new additions to its growing fighter inventory. The latest pictures feature its Shenyang J-15 Flying Shark design, which is intended to populate the decks of the country's first aircraft carrier.
