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.
Korean Air budget offshoot Jin Air will begin flying next month, and only on domestic routes, with the aim of breaking even by 2010. The company says it expects to fly internationally by September of next year, implying that the government will, as expected, relax a rule that prevents airlines from flying abroad before they have two years’ operational experience. International services next year are intended to reach China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
The resurrected China Aviation Industry Corporation, to be created by merging Avic 1 and Avic 2 back together (DAILY, May 29), will be inaugurated next month, state media reports.
Adam Air, an Indonesian airline that stopped flying in March amid problems ranging from insolvency to accusations of unsafe operations and financial wrongdoing, is now formally bankrupt. Managers had hoped to find a new financial backer despite the improbability of anyone being interested in the business.
