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 —Sichuan Airlines, expanding international services with financial backing from the Chengdu city government, is negotiating for at least 10 Airbus A330s, two industry officials in China say.
BEIJING—China’s top economic planning authority has approved construction of the long-delayed second major airport for Beijing. Construction should take five years, says the National Development and Reform Commission, governing authority for the project. But when construction will begin is still unclear. The State Council (cabinet) and Central Military Commission approved construction of the airport two years ago; at that point, the project seemed ready to go ahead.
