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.
Japan Airlines will drop two Chinese routes from Oct. 26 while increasing frequencies on a third. The airline will cease flying between Osaka Kansai Airport and Qindao and between Tokyo Narita Airport and Xi’an. But it will connect Kansai and Hanzhou seven times a week instead of three times.
Boeing is well placed to pick up another small C-17 order after South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Committee approved a plan to buy “large transport aircraft” for about 700 billion won ($620 million). The large transport aircraft will be used for sending Korean peacekeepers or disaster relief materials overseas. South Korea’s latest peacekeeping troop deployment, an army battalion sent to southern Lebanon in July 2007, used chartered Korean Air flights.
Four South Korean airlines are urging the government to block the launch of a local affiliate of Singapore’s Tiger Airways. Jeju Air, Air Busan, Yeongnam Air and Jin Air object that Incheon Tiger Airways, 51% owned by the city government of Incheon and its associates, will infringe national sovereignty, because Tiger will effectively be in control. They urge the transport ministry not to grant it an operating license.
