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 city of Qingdao, China, is offering airlines up to 80,000 yuan ($12,000) per flight for newly opened international air services to Asia, while also financially encouraging off-peak use of its airport.
The Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ program has tested the regional jet at its designed maximum speed and altitude, while preparing to fly the third and fourth prototypes within two months.
