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.
An Airbus A320 of HNA’s Capital Airlines lost its nose gear wheels and suffered severe engine damage in a landing attempt at China’s Macau International Airport that was followed by an emergency recovery in the country’s nearby southeastern city of Shenzhen.
Chinese authorities are encouraging private investment as part of a policy to encourage placement of non-government money into the civil aviation infrastructure.
