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.
Chinese airlines will get more state help in the form of a 4.29 billion yuan (US$630 million) refund from the civil aviation administration. The money that is being refunded was collected for an unspecified government fund, says the Shanghai Daily, quoting the administration’s deputy director, Yang Guoqing. The contributions covered the year to June 30, 2009.
Singapore Airlines is disposing of its ground service company, Singapore Air Terminal Services. But the airline is not selling the business, in contrast to carriers elsewhere that have scrambled to raise cash through asset sales. Comfortable with its cash position, Singapore Airlines is instead handing its stake in Singapore Air Terminal Services to its shareholders, allotting stock in proportion to their stakes in the airline.
The Royal Australian Navy is likely to move this year to replace its combat helicopter force, and must decide whether it wants commonality with the Australian Army or the U.S. Navy.
