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 provincial government of Hainan wants at least five air services to Russia and Australia to open by the end of 2017, as part of a drive to increase international connections to the southern Chinese holiday island.
China Eastern Airlines has agreed to order 10 additional Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, enlarging a currently inadequate fleet of long-haul aircraft, several industry sources said.