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.
Honeywell has picked up a faint signal of a recovery in Chinese demand for business aircraft, with a 2015 survey finding operators a little more inclined to buy aircraft than they were the year before.
Four years after opening the first authorized service center for business jets in China, Gulfstream is considering expansion to handle heavy maintenance.
Hongtu Airlines is on the verge of commencing service from its intended base in Kunming in southwest China, with a plan to operate 20 aircraft within three years and 100 aircraft by 2026.
