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.
The Australian government will attempt to make defense department officials accountable for their seemingly endless run of program foul-ups, the latest centered on the NH90 helicopter. Separately, Canberra will conduct a detailed review of the effort to field its NH90 transport version, the MRH90, putting it one step away from the “project of concern” classification that would officially label it as going off the rails.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will set up a low-cost carrier with Hong Kong and Japanese partners, with the goal of starting operations between October and next April. The carrier will be based at Kansai International Airport and will begin flying with capital of up to ¥15 billion ($184 million). But ANA will be a minority owner, at least at first.
All Nippon Airways, reporting strong quarterly financial results, warns that its business outlook is uncertain amid international economic weakness, high fuel prices and rising competition at home, including the effect of new fast train lines.
