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.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), which for years has seemed wary of budget airline growth, has told the country’s small carriers to explore low-cost operations. Perhaps encouraged by the prospect of supportive policies, the small private carrier Juneyao Airlines has applied to set up a budget offshoot in Guangzhou—the home base of China Southern Airlines, the country’s largest operator—says an industry source.
