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 Airlines and Qantas’s Jetstar subsidiary are proceeding with plans to launch Jetstar Hong Kong and have appointed a CEO. The appointment of CEO Edward Lau, who was born in Hong Kong, fulfills the partners’ commitment to select a local person to lead the budget carrier. Jetstar last month named Howard Cheung CFO. Although China Eastern last year raised the possibility that Jetstar Hong Kong could be operating by the end of 2012, Jetstar now says the target is mid-2013.
BEIJING — South Korea’s first satellite is communicating with the ground, demonstrating initial functionality following a launch on a KSLV-1 rocket on Jan. 30. To follow the KSLV-1, which matches a South Korean second stage to a first stage based on Russian technology, South Korea aims at developing its own rocket engine of 10 metric tons (22,000 lb.) thrust by 2016 and a 75-ton-thrust engine by 2018, officials tell local media.
