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.
Japan Airlines will reduce frequencies on eight Asian international routes and drop Nagoya’s daily services to Paris and Seoul after announcing a JPY99 billion (US$1 billion) net loss for the three months to June 30. The carrier has suffered a drastic drop in revenue for the period, to JPY335 billion from JPY490 billion a year earlier. The net loss compares with a deficit of JPY3 billion in the same period of 2008.
The Surion utility helicopter increasingly appears to mark the arrival of Korea Aerospace Industries as a serious player in the global rotary-wing market.
David A. Fulghum (Washington), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
The bottom-line strategy, from the U.S. military perspective, is that “we’re not withdrawing from the Korean Peninsula,” says Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Remington, commander of the 7th Air Force at Osan AB. But the question then arises: How realistic is this assessment, given that the U.S. is cutting Army force structure along with a few Air Force A-10s and tactical air control parties, moving those remaining farther from the demilitarized zone and returning operational control of forces in the peninsula to the South Korean military?
