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.
The two-seat version of the Avic Chengdu FC-1 export fighter is a combat aircraft as well as a trainer, the state manufacturer says following the first flight.
Air China will use Airbus A330-200s between Zurich and Beijing, flying four times a week. It will use Airbus A320s for the Astana service, with three weekly flights.