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 Pearl River Delta is one of the most infamously congested parts of China's airspace and now work is underway on another runway there, with yet one more likely to follow soon—and then a sixth airport.
HNA Group’s plan to compete with Cathay Pacific is increasingly in doubt, with subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines raising concern about its order for 10 Airbus A380s and delaying Boeing 777F freighter deliveries. Hong Kong Airlines also has dropped its only intercontinental route and is operating under an official restriction against further growth.
