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.
Qantas is reiterating its commitment to the Vietnamese affiliate of its Jetstar budget airline chain, even as the branch airline suffers a barrage of difficulties with the Vietnamese government. The affiliate, Jetstar Pacific, is accused of violating maintenance rules, its former CEO has been detained over fuel hedging losses and the Vietnamese transport minister demands that the airline ditch its “foreign” name.
Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Adrian Schofield (Washington)
Japan Airlines expects to emerge from bankruptcy with one-third fewer employees, 30% lower pension costs and a restored balance sheet, but intensive state control of its restructuring suggests it may remain a tool of the government, rather than a genuinely competitive company.
Heath Tecna, a U.S. maker of aircraft interior components, will supply Mitsubishi Aircraft with parts for the Mitsubishi Regional Jet. The company, based in Bellingham, Wash., will make interior linings, galley units, lavatories, emergency escape slides and the waste and water system for the MRJ. Mitsubishi Aircraft says it has also contracted EADS unit Eurocopter to supply baggage, service and passenger doors for the MRJ.
