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.
T hree big trends are underway in the Chinese airline industry: local government backing of services to promote economic growth, a westward push by carriers seeking to corral new markets and an outward push by airlines trying to make up for decades of underperformance in international operations. Movement on each of those fronts has occurred in the past few weeks.
The anti-corruption drive of Chinese President Xi Jinping over the past year could well have been a crisis for business aviation in the country if it had frightened wealthy Chinese and the companies they control away from buying business jets. There is a tradition in Communist China of keeping one’s head down, even if that conflicts with a much older tradition of showing off wealth.
