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.
China Eastern Airlines will add four Boeing 777-300ERs and seven Airbus A330-300s to its fleet this year, concentrating all additional widebody aircraft at its home operation in Shanghai.
The South Korean defense ministry has decided to import the navy’s next batch of anti-submarine helicopters, rejecting a proposal to adapt the Korea Aerospace Industries Surion.
