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.
Indonesia is looking at withdrawing international status from some of its 27 airports that now have it. Despite expected objections from regional governments that like the idea of having an international airport, the transport ministry plans to restricts some to domestic operations, especially if there is no international air service agreement that covers them.
Almost all Japanese airports are unprofitable, according to a report by an independent research group. Among 41 airports that the Aviation Policy Research Association examined, only three made money in 2005, the focus year of the study: Kobe, Itami (at Osaka) and New Chitose. Even if depreciation charges were discounted, only 10 – not quite a quarter – were in the black.
David A. Fulghum (Osan AB, South Korea), Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Douglas Barrie (London)
The second underground nuclear explosion, a ballistic missile test and a series of tactical missile launches by North Korea are certain signs of more trouble to come, say top U.S. military officials stationed in South Korea. But a major military event—either civil war or a major strike into the south—is considered remote.
