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.
Taking an increasingly cautious approach to its C919 narrowbody airliner program, Comac has extended its flight-testing program beyond two years, pushing an unannounced target for first delivery into 2019.
China Southern Airlines will become the major carrier at the airport due to open in Beijing’s southern suburbs in 2019, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said.
