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.
Services to Japan and South Korea will begin in the middle of this year, says a spokeswoman for V Air, a low-cost subsidiary of Taiwan’s Transasia Airways. V Air had previously said it would add services to Japan and South Korea in 2015.
South Korea has chosen Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) as the preferred bidder for developing the proposed KF-X indigenous fighter, rejecting a late offer from Korean Air Lines with backing from Airbus.
