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 Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 supersonic trainer will be fitted with a conformal fuel tank and inflight refueling receptacle under a program announced by the South Korean industry ministry.
Chengdu—now officially appointed the role of China’s fourth long-haul gateway—has nine of those routes, as many as the next three rivals combined. As recently as 2011, secondary cities only had four such routes.
For years, the Civil Aviation Administration of China insisted that China had three big airlines, three big bases and therefore three intercontinental gateways. Now dogged Chengdu has managed to join their ranks.
