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.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Leithen Francis (Zhuhai, China)
A distinctive feature of the Chinese economy is that most of its dominant companies, such as the main airlines, are effectively arms of the government but also compete with each other. That is part of the Communist Party's idea of “socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
Taiwan’s EVA Airways, working to join Star Alliance by June, also aims at early membership for Uni Airways to strengthen its short-haul subsidiary against competition from budget carriers. The hope is to bring Uni into the alliance well within three years of EVA’s joining, says EVA EVP Austin Cheng. Merging Uni’s frequent flyer program with those of the other Star members would be an especially desirable move for warding off competition from low-cost airlines, he adds.
