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 success of a new KLM service will help reveal how quickly airlines can exploit the potentially important opportunity for intercontinental flights to secondary Chinese cities. The destinations offer huge populations of people whose incomes and ability to travel are rising; but for the moment, they are tough markets that only two Western airlines—KLM and Lufthansa—have been brave enough to pioneer.
Japanese industry will seek a bigger role in Boeing’s 737 successor program than the already large share it holds in the 787, according to policy goals set out by the ministry that guides the country’s economic development.
