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.
A long-awaited restructuring of the Chinese airline sector looks closer after a Beijing-directed management reshuffle put executives from rival companies in charge of ailing China Eastern.
British Airways and Qantas have given up an attempt at merger, leaving the British carrier free to pursue a tie-up with Iberia. The Australian and British airlines failed to agree on the most basic term of the merger: how to share ownership of the proposed combined business. Qantas’ market valuation is higher than that of British Airways, implying that the Australian company’s shareholders should have owned most of the merged company.
BEIJING — China orbited the remote sensing satellite Yaogan 5 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center Dec. 15, marking the country’s second remote sensing satellite to be launched this month. “Yaogan” means “remote sensing.” The stated purpose of the satellite is the collection of data for land resource surveys, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning, crop yields, disaster management and space experiments. Yaogan 4 was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center earlier this month.
