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 Southern Airlines has underscored its determination to build up at Beijing, the home of rival Air China, while planning new long-haul services from its own base in Guangzhou, China.
HNA low-cost subsidiary Lucky Air is moving into widebody aircraft operations, arranging to take two Airbus A330-300s from the fleet of the group’s leading carrier, Hainan Airlines, according to an industry source.
Kunming Changshui International Airport has leaped two places to become China’s fifth-busiest airport in 2016, driven by government support and local tourism attractions.
