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.
Test operation of aircraft at the new airport at Chengdu, China will begin in December, the operating company and airlines said, ahead of opening around the middle of 2021.
Guangzhou Baiyun International has become the busiest airport in China this year, as COVID-19 outbreaks and the opening of a new Beijing airport have pushed Beijing Capital International down to sixth place.