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.
All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines will voluntarily participate in a trial of a Japanese emissions trading scheme. Japan Airlines is giving itself a target of cutting its 2010-2012 carbon dioxide emissions per seat to 84% of its 1990 level.
China Eastern Airlines has followed rival China Southern in getting a 3 billion yuan (US$440 million) recapitalization from the government, although the money seems to be only a down payment on the funding that the massively indebted company needs. The government is paying the money to China Eastern’s state-owned parent, which in turn is using it to buy new shares in the company.
Japan’s F-X fighter competition results will determine next year whether the national industry can sustain its tradition of domestic production of fast jets or instead be forced to accept a suspension and the risk of losing skills.
