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.
David A. Fulghum (Washington), Bill Sweetman (Washington), Bradley Perrett (Beijing), Robert Wall (London)
China’s newest combat aircraft prototype, the J-20, will require an intense development program if it is going to catch up with fast-moving anti-stealth advances.
Beijing Capital Airlines, a business aviation and air tour operator, plans to field more than 270 aircraft by 2015 as it exploits the explosive growth of the local market. Within that fleet, 141 will be business airplanes, says Ma Guohua, president of HNA Tourism, to which Capital is affiliated. The carrier has 24 business aircraft now, in a fleet of 50 aircraft of all types. One Boeing Business Jet is already on Capital’s books, and three are on order.
Taipei Songshan Airport expects to open a privately run business aviation facility this year to accommodate traffic growth of private aircraft at the centrally located downtown facility. A customs, immigration and quarantine area for business aviation is also planned for this year.
