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 first Mitsubishi Aircraft MRJ will fly in the second half of October, the company says, refining but not shifting a target set in April. As expected, the MRJ90 92-seat flight-test aircraft will fly from Nagoya Airport. That is where the company is setting up a final assembly factory, and the current Komaki South plant is already working on the program.
The carrier—China’s fourth largest—proposes to operate each of those routes with Airbus A330s flying twice weekly, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said.
