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 Southern subsidiary Xiamen Airlines will set up a base at Changsha, a city of 6 million people in the south-central province Hunan. Following common Chinese practice, it has formed a joint company with the provincial government to run the base, and the province says it will offer favorable policies in return. China Southern, which owns 60% of Xiamen Airlines, already has a base at Changsha Huanghua Airport.
Malaysian Airline System is looking for a merger partner, says CEO Idris Jala, while stressing that the company is not yet negotiating a tie-up with anyone. A preferred partner would be one that is dissimilar to Malaysian, says Idris. That would rule out traditional long-haul network airline businesses. Idris predicts serious overcapacity in the industry within five years because of the number of aircraft on order.
China’s civil aviation administration has withdrawn a range of service rights held by China Eastern Airlines as punishment for bad management of a labor dispute that culminated in pilots turning back flights last month.
