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.
South Korea will order four Airbus A330 MRTT tankers, extending the type’s unbroken run of wins over the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus in non-U.S. competitions.
Consolidation of the Chinese central government’s freight airlines, foreshadowed by authorities this month, reflects the administration’s wider push to reform state enterprises, partly by merging some of them.
Airbus will contribute a quarter of the development value for the rotorcraft, which will be based on the European manufacturer’s H155, formerly called EC155 B1.
