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 Southern Airlines Chairman Si Xianmin is under investigation for serious breaches of discipline, the state news agency Xinhua says, using the usual euphemism for official corruption.
Lockheed Martin expects a full program of 134 F-16 upgrades will fit into a cash-strapped South Korean modernization project that has been delayed again.
Regional-jet operator China Express Airlines is negotiating to acquire Airbus A320s, with a view to flying internationally, according to an industry source familiar with the negotiations.
