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.
Air New Zealand is signaling that its international review will result in capacity cuts on its London routes, while new flights will be launched in other markets. The international review, begun last year, is aimed at making the carrier’s international operation profitable. CEO Rob Fyfe tells employees in a memo that the airline is nearing the final stages of the review.
All Nippon Airways and Hawaiian Airlines have launched their first passenger code-share arrangement, covering routes within Japan and Hawaii, as well as some transpacific flights between Tokyo and Honolulu. Hawaiian can now place its code on ANA’s daily Boeing 767-300 flight from Tokyo Haneda to Honolulu, and also on Japanese domestic flights that connect to Hawaiian’s own Haneda-Honolulu service. The Japanese flights covered will operate from Haneda to Chitose, Osaka Itami, Osaka Kansai, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Oita, Kagoshima and Okinawa.
Japan Airlines has confirmed that it will be switching its Tokyo-Singapore flights to Boeing 787s late this year. In its latest route plan, JAL has scheduled 787s to take over its daily Tokyo Haneda-Singapore and Tokyo Narita-Singapore flights from September. Both routes are currently served with 767-300ERs. In addition, a second daily Narita-Singapore flight will be added on Oct. 28, also operated with 787s. This will give JAL three daily Singapore flights from the Tokyo airports.
