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.
Small but steadily growing Taiwanese budget carrier V Air will make Okinawa its 10th international destination as it follows a strategy of flying mainly tourism routes, often with low frequencies.
A second airport in Chengdu, China, is due to become operational in 2020, around the time the existing Shuangliu International Airport will reach capacity at 60 million passengers a year.