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 Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam will refuse to license new airlines until 2015, to help incumbents cope with the economic downturn and to relieve a shortage of skilled workers and infrastructure. The move may be a setback to the long-held plans of Malaysian budget airline group AirAsia to set up a Vietnamese offshoot.
China Eastern Airlines and Air Macau will benefit from the latest cash injections in the seemingly endless funds flowing into Chinese airlines from the government and state companies.
The owners of insolvent Air Macau, including Air China, will rescue the beleaguered carrier with an equity capital injection of 507 million Macau patacas (US$63 million). The move shows some confidence that the carrier can prosper with a new strategy of focusing on services to Japan and South Korea — or at least that there is value in the concession that gives it a monopoly as a Macau-based airline.
