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.
Finalized Chinese orders for reengined narrowbody airliners remain scant, with Boeing listing only 42 737 Max aircraft as definitively under contract with the country.
Deliveries of the 45 Airbus A330s in China’s latest order for the type will begin next year and extend until at least 2018, the manufacturer has said, adding that it fully expects Beijing to confirm an additional order for 30 so far covered only by a memorandum of understanding.
