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 Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) is moving to partially marketize the runway slot-allocation process, which would replace a system based upon purely administrative allocation that officials and airlines have repeatedly corrupted with bribes.