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.
An agreed private-equity takeover of Qantas Airways announced Dec. 14 will saddle the Australian carrier with three times as much debt, but let it carry on with its current business plan without the radical new cost cuts and asset sales typical of such leveraged buyouts.
The European Commission faces a difficult decision this week on whether to stick to its go-it-alone approach on emissions trading for airlines, or step back to find a compromise more palatable to carriers and foreign governments.
Spectacular profits in the long-haul business plan of Australian budget airline Jetstar must be on the minds of private equity investors who are proposing a buyout of its parent, Qantas.
