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 and Taiwan have agreed to 36 weekly charter flights across the strait dividing them. The flights will begin next month, Taiwanese media report, and will rise to 72 a week after the Summer Olympics in Beijing in August. Beijing has allocated its 18 flights to China Southern, Air China and China Eastern (four each) and to Hainan, Shanghai and Xiamen Airlines (two each).
Korean Air budget offshoot Jin Air will begin flying next month, and only on domestic routes, with the aim of breaking even by 2010. The company says it expects to fly internationally by September of next year, implying that the government will, as expected, relax a rule that prevents airlines from flying abroad before they have two years’ operational experience. International services next year are intended to reach China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
The resurrected China Aviation Industry Corporation, to be created by merging Avic 1 and Avic 2 back together (DAILY, May 29), will be inaugurated next month, state media reports.
