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.
Chinese MRO pay rates may now be rising no faster than the rate at which efficiency can be improved. Competition for staff from other industries is lower, and the supply of skilled people looks increasingly adequate.
South Korea will probably decide in early 2016 whether the proposed KF-X fighter will be equipped with the Eurojet EJ200 or General Electric F414 engine.
