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.
The proposal to merge Avic 1 and Avic 2 back together has run into resistance in the Chinese government. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has undisclosed objections to the current plant and wants the companies to submit a new proposal, according to Avic 1 General Manager Lin Zuoming. If the ministry can be satisfied, the merged company, China Aviation Industry Corp., will be formed in late August. It was originally supposed to be formed this month.
China Eastern Airlines hasn’t given up on the idea of bringing Singapore Airlines into its share register as a strategic partner. The company, whose debt has climbed to 95% of the value of its assets, says it will resume talks with SIA after the Olympic Games to be held next month. The company fears a hostile takeover bid from Air China. China Eastern and hometown rival Shanghai Airlines both deny a media report that they may merge. If they did, they would dominate traffic at the airports of China’s largest city.
Thailand’s Bangkok Airways is cutting back international routes in response to high fuel prices. It will suspend flying from Bangkok to Fukuoka and Shenzhen, while its affiliate Siem Reap Airways drops its service between Siem Reap and Hong Kong.
