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.
Meanwhile, some of the country’s airways are handling far-higher traffic densities than would normally be accepted by Western countries, CAAC said in a report on the efficiency of scheduled air operations last year.
Among the seven zones that the CAAC divides the country into, the strongest growth is occurring in Xinjiang, the huge and sparsely populated western province that stretches toward Central Asia. Airlines operated about 22% more scheduled flights there last year than in 2013.
