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.
The second-stage expansion of Haikou Meilan, on the southern island province Hainan, will raise annual capacity to 35 million passengers and 400,000 tons of freight by 2025, the agency says, the National Development and Reform Commission. The project cost will be 14.4 billion yuan ($2.32 billion).
Tibet Airlines, a subsidiary of state-owned Air China, holds a 75% economic interest in the new carrier, Himalayan Airlines, says an industry official in China who has been involved in arrangements for the company to begin operations.
The airline—established as a company but not yet flying—has acquired three Boeing 737-300F freighters from lessors: Two are from Aviation Capital Group and one is from Yangtze River International Leasing.
