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.
Grand China Air, which is to bringing together the operations of a group of formerly independent carriers, including Hainan Airlines, has begun operations. Hainan Airlines Chairman Chen Feng predicts Grand China will be a world-leading airline and a globally known brand within five years. Hainan, headquartered in the island province that has the same name and is its major shareholder, is already the fourth-largest airline in mainland China.
Someday China will send astronauts to the Moon, even though it has no timetable for doing so, predicts the head of the country’s space agency. Four weeks after officials formally denied press reports that China planned a manned lunar mission by 2020, the national space administration head, Sun Laiyan, says the Moon program includes only unmanned spacecraft. “But I believe one day China will for sure send its own astronauts to land on the Moon,” he adds. “I hope I can see it happen.”
Cessna Aircraft Co. is extending its production line from Wichita, Kan., to China, and expanding its single-engine line with the acquisition of Columbia Aircraft.
