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.
A Chinese aircraft carrier force, extending Beijing’s reach at least as far as the northeastern entrances of Indian Ocean, looks almost inevitable following endorsements from senior officials.
A long-awaited restructuring of the Chinese airline sector looks closer after a Beijing-directed management reshuffle put executives from rival companies in charge of ailing China Eastern.
British Airways and Qantas have given up an attempt at merger, leaving the British carrier free to pursue a tie-up with Iberia. The Australian and British airlines failed to agree on the most basic term of the merger: how to share ownership of the proposed combined business. Qantas’ market valuation is higher than that of British Airways, implying that the Australian company’s shareholders should have owned most of the merged company.
