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 Eastern has given a good hint of the direction of its future development, with high-level company visits to Easyjet, Ryanair and SAS. China Eastern Chairman Liu Shaoyong has checked out the three European carriers with other top executives, the carrier says.
W hat to do about Chinese airline overcapacity? As the carriers scrape along, with profits supported mainly by exchange-rate effects, they might be expected to sell surplus aircraft. But in China there is a big problem with that solution: The aircraft are generally overvalued.
