Adrian is Auckland bureau chief for Aviation Week, based in New Zealand. He covers commercial aviation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Adrian was previously based in Aviation Week’s Washington office for nine years, writing for a range of the group’s publications and covering many aspects of the commercial aviation industry. He has won Australasian and international awards for his aviation writing.
Prior to joining Aviation Week in 2002, Adrian covered aviation industry and policy issues for two other publishing companies in Washington. He has also worked for newspapers in Texas and New Zealand, covering a wide range of topics. Adrian graduated from Auckland University with a degree in history and English in 1992.
After two years of rapid growth, Airbus's air traffic management unit is carving itself an increasingly prominent role in the global ATM industry. The Airbus ProSky subsidiary is already one of the few companies to be deeply involved in both the U.S. NextGen initiative and its European equivalent, Sesar. Now, with a new management team in place, it is aiming to more closely align its disparate pieces and bring more-integrated products to market.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) says it will be flying its Boeing 787s on some one-off passenger flights later this month, even though the aircraft are not due to resume their regularly scheduled routes until June 1. The move confirms a statement made to Aviation Week in February that ANA was considering using the 787s on ad hoc “relief flights” before the carrier resumed operations on the aircraft’s regular routes. Such flights are intended to temporarily boost the domestic network where demand is high.
Qantas subsidiary Jetstar now is expected to take delivery of its first Boeing 787-8 in late September. Qantas has firm orders for 14 787s, and all are earmarked for its Jetstar operation. The first of these aircraft was scheduled to arrive in August, but problems with the aircraft’s lithium-ion batteries caused the overall delivery schedule to be put on hold. A Qantas executive in mid-April estimated that the longest delay would be no more than two months, but it appears that the delay is just one month.
