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.
Thai Airways will lease 14 Boeing 787s and buy or lease 20 Airbus A321s under plans approved by its board of directors. Management has been authorized to pay a $3 million deposit for the Airbus planes.
The Vietnamese government says it will sell 10% to 20% of Vietnam Airlines to a foreign strategic investor. The state will retain only 70% to 80% of the company, Vietnam’s largest airline, according to a preliminary plan for the privatization, for which no timetable is available. A chunk of stock, apparently 10%, will be sold to public shareholders in an initial public offering. Proceeds of the sale will go to enlarging the company’s capital, rather than being paid to the government.
The Vietnamese government has given preliminary approval for the establishment of a second private airline, Phu Quoc Air. If the approval is confirmed, the carrier will join Vietjet Air, which got its operating license as the country’s first private airline last month. Vietjet is expected to begin flying in November.
