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.
China Eastern Airlines is likely to shrink, with executives revealing plans to freeze its fleet size this year while offloading subsidiaries and even part of its mainline operations. The plans are among a range of measures that management will adopt to turn around the unprofitable carrier, the smallest and weakest of China’s Big Three (DAILY, Jan. 13). China Eastern hopes to delay or sell all aircraft it is due to receive this year, with the aim of keeping capacity unchanged, the company tells Reuters. China Joy Air
South Korea has ordered six Type 214 submarines from Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW), adding to three units of the class that it ordered in 2000. Local shipyards, beginning with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering for the first boat, will assemble the six submarines with packages supplied by the German company. Local builders also have been responsible for the first three, of which two have been delivered.
BEIJING – China’s newly formed helicopter company will be based in Tianjin, where the city government will take 31 percent of the capital in a first step toward separating the rotary-wing business from national aircraft-making conglomerate Avic. Tianjin also will host a new production line with which the company will build light civilian helicopters, part of a range of initiatives that are turning the city, a big port close to Beijing, into a globally important aerospace center.
