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.
Garuda Indonesia will probably defer until the third quarter a planned initial public offering of its shares intended to raise about $300 million to finance expansion. Global economic weakness is pushing the carrier to defer the share offering, which was originally planned in June, said minister for state-owned enterprises Mustafa Abubakar,
The Chinese government has decided to allocate to Air China 20 A320s that it ordered from Airbus two years ago. The government buys aircraft centrally through the China Aviation Supplies Import and Export Group Corp. It said in November 2007 that it would buy 110 A320 family aircraft and 50 A330s, and Airbus formally booked the order in 2008, awaiting notification of the users. The allocation to Air China has been widely, but wrongly, reported as an order.
AirAsia will begin operating from a fourth national base this year after agreeing to buy into and rebrand a Vietnamese airline, even as the local affiliate of rival Jetstar struggles with a barrage of difficulties with the government in Hanoi. The move strengthens AirAsia’s lead in Southeast Asia over Jetstar and Tiger Airways as the three Asia-Pacific, no-frills groups race to set up multinational franchise chains. For the first time, two of them will have franchised affiliates in the same country.
