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.
Construction of a third runway for Shenzhen Baoan International Airport has received permission from China’s top planning agency, clearing the way for the facility to handle 80,000 passengers a year by 2030.
Most of China’s largest airports suffered traffic falls of at least 5% in January as a result of early reactions to the COVID-19 outbreak, the first national airport data for 2020 showed.