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.
Sen. John Faulkner, a highly regarded figure in the Australian government, will take over as defense minister following the resignation of Joel Fitzgibbon, while Bob Ainsworth has been named the new British Secretary of State for Defense. Fitzgibbon quit last week after it was revealed that the major general in charge of defense health services was ordered to discuss possible health insurance savings with Fitzgibbon’s brother, who is the head of an Australian insurance company, and with a U.S. insurer that the brother represented.
The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam will refuse to license new airlines until 2015, to help incumbents cope with the economic downturn and to relieve a shortage of skilled workers and infrastructure. The move may be a setback to the long-held plans of Malaysian budget airline group AirAsia to set up a Vietnamese offshoot.
China Eastern Airlines and Air Macau will benefit from the latest cash injections in the seemingly endless funds flowing into Chinese airlines from the government and state companies.
