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.
China Eastern Airlines has thwarted an attempt by China Southern Airlines to set up a base at Shanghai that may have intensified competition for international services to the country’s largest city. The successful lobbying by Shanghai-based China Eastern limits China Southern’s attempts at reducing dependence on domestic business.
BEIJING — The South Korean air force has raised its requirements for stealthiness in its next fighter, according to a newspaper report that suggests the Lockheed Martin F-35 is now the only acceptable candidate in the F-X Phase 3 competition.
China is taking new steps to liberalize its airline sector by relaxing minimum fare rules and further encouraging the growth of budget airlines and new market entrants. Following moves to free up the industry announced earlier this year, the latest measures confirm suspicions that a wider government push to increase competition in the economy has spread to commercial aviation, to the detriment of the major incumbents.
