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.
Reflecting the importance of the Wedgetail to the RAAF, this program has been announced only two years after the type achieved final operational capability.
Chinese online travel agency Tongcheng Group has bought control of small, newly established Hongtu Airlines, aiming to copy the successful business model of rival Spring Travel and its Spring Airlines subsidiary.