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 MRJ is no closer to scheduled first delivery than it was at the beginning of the decade. As the years have passed, successive delays have added an equal number of years to the development program.
Chinese authorities are still considering adding a fourth runway to Beijing Capital International Airport, even as construction of a new airport promises to ease the city’s capacity shortage.
