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 Chinese space industry is studying a Moon rocket in the class of the Saturn V while separately moving ahead with a medium-heavy launcher that will complete a modern, modular family of launch vehicles. Chinese space engineers appear to be planning to assemble manned lunar spacecraft in orbit with two or more launches per mission.
China Southern plans to raise up to 10.75 billion yuan (US$1.58 billion) in equity to reduce debt. The airline said it will sell new stock to institutional buyers, including China Southern Air Holding Co., the state company that already controls it. China Southern is not naming the other institutional investors. The placement is part of a wave of airline recapitalizations that followed the Chinese industry’s descent into a serious slowdown two years ago.
China Eastern will strengthen Singapore’s growing connections with Chinese secondary cities on March 20, when it begins flying between the Southeast Asian city-state and Nanjing. China Eastern will fly the 3,700-kilometer (2,000 nautical mile) route with Airbus A319s three times a week in competition with Singapore Airlines’ twice-weekly Boeing 777-200 service.
