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.
Indonesian airlines will have to operate at least five aircraft from April, says Transport Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal. They will have to own at least two of them, he adds. The country is trying to raise the safety standards of the many airlines that have proliferated in its skies over the past few years. The Antara news agency reported the minister’s remarks.
Northwest and the V Australia long-haul subsidiary of Virgin Blue have agreed to feed traffic to each other with the new Australian carrier’s transpacific flights, which will begin on Dec. 15 with a service between Sydney and Los Angeles. V Australia is describing the arrangement as a ticketing partnership, in which a single ticket will take a passenger on connecting flights of the two airlines. The new airline will fit its forthcoming 777-300ER fleet with economy, premium economy and business- class cabins.
Malaysian Airline System has ordered 35 Boeing 737-800s and taken options on 20 more in a long-awaited deal to overhaul its narrowbody fleet, which is based on 737-400s. Deliveries will begin from September 2010, and the company will have the choice of switching to the 737-900ER version, of which a nearby rival, Indonesia’s Lion Air, has ordered 178.
