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.
Across China, airlines are operating or planning intercontinental air services from secondary cities, with temporary financial backing from local governments.
The average age of China Airlines’ long-haul aircraft will fall to only 3.6 years when Airbus completes delivery of 14 A350s to the Taiwanese carrier in 2018.
The Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ may be delayed beyond its latest, mid-2018 target for first delivery, the company has told launch customer All Nippon Airways.
