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.
Singapore Airlines is in final talks to buy a stake in the smallest and financially weakest of China's Big Three airlines, Shanghai-based China Eastern, state media say. Although such a deal has long been expected, Singapore Airlines is playing down the prospects of succeeding with this project, saying it is only talking about cooperation with the unprofitable Chinese carrier.
A revolution in international freight will begin this year as five airlines and their business and government partners attack the piles of paperwork that have long frustrated the speed potential of air transportation of goods.
