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.
JAL plans to boost service between Tokyo and New Delhi to daily frequencies from October, in response to strong demand from business travelers. The airline currently operates four flights a week on this route, and was already scheduled to boost frequency to five times a week, beginning Oct. 1. The latest announcement will add two more flights from Oct. 28, giving the airline daily service. The additional flights are subject to government approval. JAL uses Boeing 777-200ERs for these flights. The carrier began New Delhi service in 1965. -AS
European governments must accept the need to delegate more responsibilities to a common air traffic management authority to improve the efficiency of the European system, says a report unveiled Friday in Brussels by a high-level group of experts.
American continued to make deep capacity cuts in June, with consolidated capacity down by 5.4% and traffic declining 3.5%. The capacity cut resulted in load factor rising 1.7 points to 87.1%. Once again, domestic capacity saw the largest drop of 5.8%, compared with a 3% traffic decline. Domestic load factor was up 2.6 points to 89.5%. On the international front, traffic was down 4.3% on a capacity cut of 4.6%, resulting in load factor growing just 0.3 points to 83%. Transatlantic flights saw the only load factor drop, down 2.6 points to 87%.
