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.
HNA Group’s plan to compete with Cathay Pacific is increasingly in doubt, with subsidiary Hong Kong Airlines raising concern about its order for 10 Airbus A380s and delaying Boeing 777F freighter deliveries. Hong Kong Airlines also has dropped its only intercontinental route and is operating under an official restriction against further growth.
Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, China’s second-busiest, has begun work on an expansion program that will more than double its designed capacity and strengthen its bid to be the leader among five airports in the Pearl River Delta. Start of the work follows confirmation by the national government last month that Guangzhou will serve as one of China’s three main international aviation gateways, even though the great majority of southern China’s intercontinental passengers connect at Hong Kong International Airport.
