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 start of operations has been delayed for Hongtu Airlines, a narrowbody carrier that will serve the local tourism and international freight markets from its base in Kunming in southwestern China.
China has always preferred administrative allocation of runway access. Now the national drive against corruption has evidently prompted a trial period of auctioning and trading slots.
Avic is setting up a second airline to operate its unpopular commercial turboprop, this time a specialist cargo carrier using the MA600F, the freighter version of the type.
