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.
Chinese government officials have chosen participants in the nation’s project for a large commercial aircraft, which will include Harbin Aircraft, Shaanxi Aircraft, Xi’an Aircraft, Shenyang Aircraft and Chengdu Aircraft. All are units of Avic 1 and Avic 2, which will soon be merged along focused product lines — possibly as a preliminary to reorganizing the industry. Xi’an Aircraft had already said it would make assemblies for the aircraft.
Japan’s Skymark Airlines has cancelled about 10% of its June schedule, dropping an average of six flights a day, because, it says, two of its 85 pilots are leaving the company. It is unclear why the loss of just two pilots is having so great an effect on the schedule. The transport ministry says the cut could extend into July and beyond and is urging Skymark to get its business back in order.
