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 Chinese government has named the two top leaders of the aero-engine company that it is forming by splitting off propulsion businesses from aeronautics group Avic.
Air China has applied to open a route between Shanghai and San Jose, California, moving for a second time in four months to take a market that Hainan Airlines looked likely to enter.
A newly registered airline backed by one of China’s largest travel agency groups aims to begin flying next year, partly emulating the business model of Shanghai-based Spring Airlines.
