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.
BEIJING—Only 68.4% of Chinese scheduled flights were on time last year, marking the third straight year of declining performance and demonstrating that short-term capacity expansion efforts, such as opening temporary airways, are not coping with industry growth. The 2014 on-time performance compares with 72.3% in 2013 and 83.1% in 2007, Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) data show
MHI has painted the fifth aircraft in the colors of launch customer All Nippon Airways. In a photograph issued by Mitsubishi Aircraft, the outer wing boxes have not been attached to the inner wing box, however.
Meanwhile, some of the country’s airways are handling far-higher traffic densities than would normally be accepted by Western countries, CAAC said in a report on the efficiency of scheduled air operations last year.
