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’s two main aircraft-making groups, Avic 1 and Avic 2, will merge back together, nine years after they were separated, industry executives say. The merger is the next step in China’s long campaign to turn its aircraft sector into an internationally competitive industry that operates on a fully commercial basis.
All Nippon Airways and South Korea’s Asiana Airlines are deepening their already close relationship with more code-sharing. The airlines, which own small shares in each other, will cooperate on 10 of All Nippon’s domestic routes, served by 100 flights a week, Asiana says. The two companies already have close operational links. They agreed last year to buy fuel jointly and to help each other out with spare parts.
Malaysian long-haul budget carrier AirAsia X, in announcing flights to Perth in Western Australia, also says it expects to fly to Japan next year. The service between Kuala Lumpur and Perth will begin on Nov. 2, about a week after the arrival of the airline’s second A330. The first aircraft is flying two routes from Kuala Lumpur, one to Hangzhou in eastern China and one to the Gold Coast in eastern Australia.
