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.
Malaysia has finally agreed to liberalize air services between its cities and Singapore -- but not much. Budget carrier AirAsia will be allowed just two flights a day between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, with the latter's Tiger Airways expected to get a similar allowance.
China is redoubling efforts to keep its outstanding commercial air safety record, despite the challenge of 15% annual traffic growth that it expects to continue for some years. The civil aviation bureau is clamping down on airline managers coming into the industry without any background in aviation, is adding inspectors at a furious pace and is issuing new regulations to keep airlines focused on safety.
Douglas Barrie (London), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
South Korea’s stealth fighter ambitions are beginning to flush out European industry’s aspirations for manned combat aircraft developments beyond those in production. U.S. manufacturers’ low profile in the tentative KFX competition is raising the prospect that they could lose South Korea as well as Japan as captive fighter markets. Saab and EADS, by contrast, are laboring to address the requirement to support domestic development of a next-generation fighter.
