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.
Chinese fighter builder Avic Defense, consciously imitating Dassault, aims to build a large business jet as part of its strategy of exploiting military technology for its civilian operations. Avic Defense will also build up an aircraft maintenance business catering to airline customers, says President Wang Yawei, while offering new insights into the reorganization of the Chinese aircraft sector.
Frank Morring, Jr. (Washington), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden plans to travel to Beijing next year for potentially historic talks that could lead to the sort of human-spaceflight cooperation with China that already marks the U.S. relationship with Russia. The way there is far from clear, however, and much work remains before U.S. and Chinese astronauts fly together in space.
Delta Air Lines and its Skyteam partners are willing to pump $700 million of capital into Japan Airlines, which the transport minister now says might be allowed to go bankrupt and forced into a court-directed reorganization. The offer from Skyteam, aimed at luring the Japanese carrier away from oneworld, comprises $500 million in non-voting equity capital and $200 million in loans secured against Japan Airlines’ assets, said Delta President Edward Bastian.
