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.
The Chinese authorities are insisting that the market will determine control of China Eastern Airlines, offering the massively indebted Shanghai carrier little hope of official help as it struggles to avoid the clutches of larger rival Air China.
The freight business of Asiana Airlines will develop further as a result of an equity link with the country’s largest logistics company, Korea Express. Asiana’s parent, Kumho Asiana Group, is leading a group of companies that has contracted to buy 60% of Korea Express. When the consortium was chosen as preferred bidder last month, Kumho Asiana said that Korea Express and Asiana would jointly offer air express services and that the combined logistics business would enter foreign markets.
Component maker Ametek will open a 1,700 square meter (18,000 sq. ft.) maintenance facility in Singapore by the end of this month to cut turnaround times for Asian customers. The facility’s initial work will include maintenance and repair of pneumatic and hydraulic parts.
