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.
Pratt & Whitney PW1200 engines for the first Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ are due to arrive at the end of this month, as the company prepares to build a new plant for final assembly.
Qatar Airways and Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific will sell seats on each other’s flights beginning this month, following the entry of the Middle Eastern carrier into Oneworld in October and Cathay’s starting of twice-daily services to Doha on March 30. In general, the new codeshare agreement gives Cathay more connections in Europe, Africa and the Persian Gulf, while increasing Qatar Airways’ reach in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan.
