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.
An opportunity may be slipping from South Korea's hands—if it was ever there. Since at least 2010, the country's government and industry have been working to begin developing a 90-seat turboprop regional airliner, but talks with the latest prospective partner, Bombardier, have failed.
South Korea and Bombardier have failed to come to an agreement on joint development of a 90-seat regional turboprop, leaving the country without a current manufacturer as a potential partner, since talks with ATR shareholder EADS also produced no deal.
