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.
BEIJING — Korea Aerospace Industries will move ahead with preliminary development of South Korea’s proposed light attack helicopter, following the Defense Ministry’s decision to contract with the company for concept definition.
China’s airline industry needs to consolidate further, with the aim of building only two or three internationally competitive airlines, says the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The remarks, by administration chief Li Jiaxiang, seem to suggest at least one merger among China’s four main airlines—China Southern, China Eastern, Air China and Hainan Airlines.
After waiting seven years for what you hoped would be an airliner that would take the world by storm, it would be a shame to find that it did not fit your aerobridges.
