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.
Japan’s three major aircraft builders are proposing to take on part of Boeing’s next commercial aircraft as risk- and revenue-sharing partners, according to a local media report.
Prosperous Shenzhen has become the latest Chinese secondary city to open intercontinental air links, with China Southern Airlines beginning flights to Sydney and Xiamen Airlines planning a service to Seattle.
Mitsubishi Aircraft has resumed flight testing of its MRJ regional jet, following airframe strengthening and software modifications to the program’s first prototype.
