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.
HNA Group is sending its leading carrier, Hainan Airlines, into the long-haul market of Kunming, a southwestern Chinese city where China Eastern Airlines has long been the dominant operator.
Chinese carriers Ruili Airlines and Donghai Airlines are sticking with plans to acquire Boeing 787s, well informed industry sources said, contradicting an Aviation Daily report that 737s would be bought.
