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.
Star Alliance CEO Mark Schwab sees no value adding a Middle East airline to its roster and rejects the possibility that Virgin Atlantic is a potential candidate. “We at Star Alliance have good, strong services into the [Persian] Gulf already,” partly thanks to the proximity of Turkish Airlines and Egyptair, Schwab said during a ceremony marking Shenzhen Airlines’ membership with the global alliance. “When we look at the airlines that are based there, we don’t see what they would add to the alliance.”
China Airlines affiliate Shenzhen Airlines yesterday formally joined the Star Alliance, enlarging the group by about 2% but bringing mainly potential rather than immediate network benefits.
