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.
Major airways across China will be altered in the coming 3-5 years, said Che Jinjun, director of the air traffic management bureau of the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), apparently referring to more general changes but without giving details.
BEIJING—The anti-corruption crackdown that has suppressed sales of business aircraft in China could end in 2017, according to one expert, though others see reasons for it to wind down sooner, or maybe later. The duration of the government’s campaign to catch bribe-taking officials and their business cronies is probably the biggest question for manufacturers looking to China as a potentially enormous market. When showing off a jet is no longer asking to be investigated, the theory goes, buyers will come back.
The anti-corruption campaign that has disrupted business jet sales in China will end in 2017, says one expert. It may moderate earlier—or not until years later.
