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.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has again extended the development schedule for its MRJ regional jet, this time by about one-and-a-half years, with first delivery now due in the second quarter of 2017, nine years after the program was launched. First flight of the Pratt & Whitney PW1217G-powered aircraft, previously scheduled for the last quarter of this year, now will occur in the second quarter of 2015.
A South Korean government committee is due next month to decide the winner of the F-X Phase 3 fighter competition, in which the Boeing F-15SE is the only remaining candidate following an assessment by the Defense Acquisition Program Agency (DAPA).
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has rejected calls to sell the government’s majority stake in loss-making Malaysian Airlines System (MAS), arguing that its financial performance is improving. The carrier reported a loss of 176 million ringgit ($53.5 million) for the three months ending June 30, compared with a loss of 349.3 million ringgit a year earlier, although the operating result swung to a small profit of 7.9 million ringgit from a loss of 101.9 million ringgit. Revenue rose to 3.8 billion ringgit, up 14.3% from a year earlier.
