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.
Chinese turboprop operator Joy Air is planning to introduce standard narrowbody jet aircraft, fulfilling a long-held ambition, thanks to the support of controlling shareholder Okay Airways, industry sources said.
Taiwan’s China Airlines has refined schedules to reduce waiting times for passengers on connecting flights, while also exploiting the range of new aircraft to replace one-stop services with direct flights.