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.
Bradley Perrett, Adrian Schofield, Leithen Francis
Asia-Pacific airlines are focused on tapping into the strong demand growth projected for their region. But the vast potential of these markets means competition is fierce, and while strategies vary, the common theme is that bold moves are considered necessary for airlines to prosper. China is still viewed as the major prize, although opportunities abound elsewhere in Asia. Even the more mature Pacific-Rim airline markets such as Japan and Australia offer growth prospects.
Korean Air Lines said last month it aimed to be Asia's strongest aerospace company by 2020. Even by South Korean standards, the assertion seemed a little ambitious, since the company's aircraft and space division is not a fifth of the size of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' aerospace company, and hardly compares with the sprawling Avic group in China.
BEIJING — Selection of an aircraft for South Korea’s F-X fighter Phase 3 competition will not be made until the first half of next year. The country’s Defense Industry Committee, chaired by the defense minister, says negotiations are stuck on the point of offsets and other conditions, rather than price. The decision to order heavy attack helicopters, almost certainly Boeing AH-64 Apaches, has also been deferred until the first half of 2013.
