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.
Hainan Airlines subsidiary Lucky Air has set up a base at Chengdu, extending the group’s westward push and challenging Air China, the biggest major operator at the large western Chinese city. Following approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of China last month for Lucky Air to establish a branch company in the city, the carrier has begun began flying the short route between the Chengdu Shuangliu and Jiuzhai Huanglong Airports. Jiuzhai is a major tourism destination.
Adrian Schofield (Auckland), Jeremy Torr (Singapore ), Bradley Perrett (Beijing)
The hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has thrown a harsh light on the fragile nature of internal and cross-border relationships in Southeast Asia, as a lack of coordination hampered both detection of the flightpath and response to its disappearance.
China Southern will open a service to Moscow as part of a build-up of operations at Wuhan, the large central Chinese city, where its chief rival is fellow SkyTeam alliance member China Eastern. Air China, meanwhile, is continuing its expansion at China Eastern’s main base, Shanghai, by announcing a service to Munich. The new routes are part of the Chinese airline industry’s wider push to increase international business, despite a long history of ceding most such services to foreign carriers.
