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.
Indonesian state domestic airline Merpati Nusantara will cut its staff by more than half while international operator Garuda Indonesia moves closer to privatization. The sackings at Merpati are a condition on 350 billion rupiah (US$39 million) in government money that will be used to recapitalize the unprofitable carrier. Another condition is that management produce a feasible business plan.
A rush of new and expanded CFM56 overhaul shops in China planned for the next several years is likely to leave the country with more capacity than even its burgeoning engine population needs. Executives involved in the expansion are looking more closely at getting work from abroad, opening a new phase in China’s move into the international aerospace market. Experience suggests that they could be quite competitive.
Japan’s two largest airlines are reducing flights. Japan Airlines is eliminating or reducing 19 services, while All Nippon Airways does the same with 11. The biggest cuts are in Japan Airlines’ schedule. The carrier, Asia’s largest, will drop 12 routes, including those between Kansai and London and between Chubu and Pusan. The three routes that All Nippon will drop include the one between Chubu and Taipei.
