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.
A final assembly line that Airbus and local partners plan to set up at Tianjin, China, would replicate both the processes and the products of its Hamburg plant. The Chinese line's A319 and A320 aircraft should be indistinguishable from those built in Germany and France, the company said at Air Show China Oct. 31.
