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.
Singapore Technologies Aerospace (ST Aero) will maintain 143 CFM56-7B engines for India’s Jet Airways and subsidiary Jetlite under a maintenance-by-the-hour contract valued at S$1 billion (US$750 million). “Work for both airlines will involve off-wing, on-wing and on-site support, as well as fleet technical and asset management support,” ST Aero and Jet Airways say in a joint statement. The engines power 67 Boeing 737s operated by Jet Airways and its subsidiary.
Japan Airlines will contract more than originally planned, with further routes to be canned, Boeing 747s to be retired earlier and job losses to increase by about 20%. Under pressure from the government and creditors to restructure itself more thoroughly, the ailing carrier will make a second attempt at designing the reduced network it will keep after emerging from its court-supervised bankruptcy.
