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.
If the Tianjin plant accelerates output, it will do so as part of Airbus’s push to a rate of 60 aircraft per month, which is supposed to be reached by mid-2019. Stepping up to six a month from four would be easy.