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.
China will build a small turbofan to propel itself into the business of integrating and manufacturing complete civil aero-engines. The 7,100- to 8,800-pound powerplant from one subsidiary of Chinese aircraft conglomerate Avic is aimed at a small business jet proposed by another, responsible for general aviation.
TAIWANESE TREMORS: The Taiwanese military is maintaining its longstanding opposition to commercial airlines taking the shortest route between the island and mainland China, with officials citing the need to guard against surprise air attack. Defense Minister Gen. Chen Chao-ming says he supports the policy of charter flights that don’t go through the sensitive restricted zone in the Taiwan Strait.
Singapore Airlines is reducing Asian services in its winter schedule while adding flights to Saudi Arabia. Reductions include services between Singapore and Osaka, Seoul, Penang and Ho Chi Minh City. “Where demand falls, capacity reductions will be made quickly,” the airline says. The airline hasn’t specified the percentage change in capacity. Several of the changes will be gradual. One daily flight on the Seoul service will be wound down until it is suspended completely from Feb. 2 to March 28.
