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.
Etihad Airways has begun interlining with Australia's Virgin Blue. The United Arab Emirates carrier has been flying to Sydney since March and Brisbane since September. It says the service between Sydney and Abu Dhabi has been so successful that it will raise the frequency to 11 flights a week from next March. [email protected]
Singapore's Tiger Airways will establish a franchisee airline with the South Korean city Incheon, extending its no-frills brand into north Asia. The latest expansion move by Singapore Airlines budget affiliate will create perhaps the most widely spread narrowbody operation in the world as it and three other Asia/Pacific budget carriers vie to establish their brands across the region.
China’s Long March 5 heavy rocket program, comparable to the U.S. Delta IV, will comprise a family of launchers to be built at a plant at Tianjin whose construction began this week. The rockets will go into service in 2013 at the new Wenchang launch base on Hainan Island. Wenchang itself is to be ready by 2012. The diameter of Long March 5 will be 5 meters (16 ft., 5 in.), up from the 3.35 meters of the current Long March 3.
