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 Canada believes its new fare structure is part of the reason for the increases in load factor and traffic that the airline saw in February. Consolidated traffic was up 5.6% on a capacity gain of 3.7%, with load factor rising 1.4 percentage points to 79.6%. Mainline traffic increased 4.5%, as capacity grew 2.8% and load factor rose 1.3 points to 80%. Regional traffic was up 18.5% on a 13.4% capacity gain, and load factor rose 3.3 points to 75.7%.
JAL and Korean yesterday announced they are extending their code-share operations to cover flights from Tokyo and Osaka to Korea's Jeju Island. Korea currently operates daily nonstop flights on the Jeju routes. JAL will put its code on the Jeju flights from March 25, if government approval is granted. Jeju will be the third destination in South Korea offered by JAL. The island is a popular beach destination for Japanese tourists.
United saw its February load factor increase slightly to a new record for the month, with system capacity falling faster than traffic. Overall load factor was up 0.6 percentage points to 77.5%, as North American loads climbed 0.7 points to 78.9%. Latin America saw the largest increase of 4.8 points to 80.5%, and Pacific routes had the only decrease, down 0.1 points to 77.7%. Transatlantic loads rose 0.9 points to 70.1%.
