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.
China Southern Airlines is reinforcing a buildup in China’s far western Xinjiang province, lifting its 2020 fleet target to 110 from 95, and setting an annual passenger growth target of 17%.
A newly established unit in HNA Group’s business-aviation empire has received its air operator’s certificate from the civil aviation authority of Guernsey, a British dependency in the English Channel.