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.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to receive its third Airbus A380 in April, which will allow the carrier to move to an all-A380 service on the busy route between Tokyo Narita airport and Honolulu.
Officials from Ukraine and executives from Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) headed to Tehran, Iran on Jan. 8 to learn more about what brought down a UIA Boeing 737-800 shortly after it departed Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA) earlier that day, killing all 179 people on board.
Airlines are making changes to their flight planning and schedules to avoid Iranian and Iraqi airspace amid growing military tensions between the U.S. and Iran—and after a Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) aircraft crashed after take-off from Tehran, killing everyone on board.
