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.
China Postal Airlines has ordered 10 Boeing 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) variants and seven Boeing 757-200s for cargo conversion, amidst intensifying competition in the Chinese express-delivery market.
The start of operations has been delayed for Hongtu Airlines, a narrowbody carrier that will serve the local tourism and international freight markets from its base in Kunming in southwestern China.
China has always preferred administrative allocation of runway access. Now the national drive against corruption has evidently prompted a trial period of auctioning and trading slots.
