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.
Reporting in 2008 on Beijing's studies for a new airport, Aviation Week suggested that the facility would “probably be planned on a gargantuan scale.” We were not wrong. Plans show that the new facility at Daxing, now going ahead, could ultimately handle 130 million passengers a year with seven runways, possibly nine. One of the runways will be reserved for the air force.
China has declared its Beidou satellite navigation system fully operational, although the service remains limited to the Asia-Pacific region. The operating office says it is “accelerating” construction of the system but repeats its long-standing commitment to achieve global coverage by about 2020; no possible earlier date is mentioned.
BEIJING — China has declared its Beidou satellite navigation system fully operational, although the service remains limited to most of the Asia-Pacific region. The operating office says it is “accelerating” construction of the system, but repeats its longstanding commitment to achieve global coverage by about 2020; no earlier possibility is mentioned.
