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.
HNA Group’s Urumqi Airlines has started flying the Embraer E190, an aircraft likely to be well matched to many routes in the sparsely populated territory in far western China where it is based.