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.
The acquisition by the Beijing city government of new shares in Capital Airlines—announced Dec. 12—will greatly enlarge the city’s holdings in the HNA Group’s second-largest carrier, industry sources said.
A Chinese Boeing 737 completion center built by the US manufacturer and the Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) handed over its first aircraft Dec. 15, less than two years after construction began at the site.
The first Boeing 737 finished at the joint Boeing-COMAC completion facility in Zhoushan, China was delivered to its first customer, Air China, Dec. 15.
