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.
British engine support company TES Aviation Group has opened its first overseas facility in Singapore, serving about 40 Asia-Pacific clients. Explaining the move, TES CEO Ashley Cooper notes that the Asian market is set to overtake those of Europe and the United States. Asia accounts for about 15% of the company's revenue, but that figure is expected to grow.
Chinese airport development is marching ahead at a furious pace, seemingly oblivious to the financial risk of millions of passengers switching to a massive high-speed rail network that is also under construction.
Jetstar, the low-cost arm of Australia's Qantas, will operate long-haul flights out of Singapore Changi Airport by year-end and is looking at destinations in North Asia, Australia and Southern Europe. The plan is to open the first route in December, when the first of two Airbus A330-200s to be based in Singapore arrives. A second route will follow when plane No. 2 arrives in early 2011, says Jetstar representative Simon Westaway. The destinations have not been determined.
