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.
Chinese business aviation used to suffer from the Singapore Syndrome, says David Dixon, a 22-year veteran of the industry here. Business jet manufacturers, caught in the classic bind of having few local sales and therefore little interest in setting up support facilities that would promote sales, assured their Chinese clients that they could have their aircraft serviced in Singapore.
China’s first business aviation airfield should be under construction east of Beijing by year’s end. The planned airfield at Sanhe is a project associated with Minsheng International Jet, which has broad ambitions in business aviation. It has been designed for Gulfstream, Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer aircraft, says Minsheng Jet Chairman Mo Lijun. This suggests that users of Boeing and Airbus business jets will have to go to Beijing Capital International Airport, where congestion is demanding an alternative for private flying.
