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.
As Beijing encourages state companies to seek more nongovernment capital, China Eastern sees a renewed chance for attracting strategic investment. The investor will not necessarily be Delta Air Lines.
A plan to set up an HNA Group airline at Ningbo has survived the downfall of the eastern Chinese city’s mayor, with operations now seen as beginning as early as October.
The southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is rapidly developing intercontinental air links, to the detriment of adjacent Hong Kong and that self-governing city’s major carrier, Cathay Pacific Airways.
