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China’s civil aviation administration has withdrawn a range of service rights held by China Eastern Airlines as punishment for bad management of a labor dispute that culminated in pilots turning back flights last month.
Weakness in the airline sector may present Singapore’s Tiger Airways with a chance to buy another airline, says CEO Tony Davis. It is also talking to Airbus about getting earlier delivery of its Airbus A320s, which has become a possibility with the failure of other airlines. The ambitious budget carrier says that under current plans it will have 72 A320s in service by 2016, up from 12 now.
China is now banning lighters and matches from domestic flights in an effort to step up aviation security. Liquids were banned last month after media reported an attempt to start a gasoline fire on an aircraft.
