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.
Avic is setting up a second airline to operate its unpopular commercial turboprop, this time a specialist cargo carrier using the MA600F, the freighter version of the type.
Exploitation of crucial flight slots has been a key factor in the decision of SF Express—China’s largest freighter operator—to order Boeing 767-300s converted to freighters, the company says.