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.
Yangtze River Express has not announced a date for beginning passenger flights, but this year is likely, since HNA Group airlines are adept at setting up new carriers, and in this case need only widen the business of one that is already flying.
The Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 supersonic trainer will be fitted with a conformal fuel tank and inflight refueling receptacle under a program announced by the South Korean industry ministry.
Chengdu—now officially appointed the role of China’s fourth long-haul gateway—has nine of those routes, as many as the next three rivals combined. As recently as 2011, secondary cities only had four such routes.
