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.
Chinese online travel agency Tongcheng Group has bought control of small, newly established Hongtu Airlines, aiming to copy the successful business model of rival Spring Travel and its Spring Airlines subsidiary.
The Nikkei newspaper reports Lockheed Martin is offering an improved version of the F-35 Lightning for Japan’s requirement for a fighter to deploy in the 2030s.
