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 Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has formally tightened rules on setting up airlines, around five months after it made an unannounced decision to suspend authorizations.
Two Chinese airlines have dropped plans to buy a total of 11 Boeing 787s, switching to 737 MAX aircraft because of government pressure, industry sources said.
