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.
Among the seven zones that the CAAC divides the country into, the strongest growth is occurring in Xinjiang, the huge and sparsely populated western province that stretches toward Central Asia. Airlines operated about 22% more scheduled flights there last year than in 2013.
One official believes an order for up to 160 A330s is possible, but the other official is sure that the figure will be closer to 70. Both agree that the order will be a mix of A330ceos and A330neos.
