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.
ICAO’s target of having satellite-based approaches at every qualifying airport by the end of 2016 will not be met at the current rate of deployment, industry experts say. Only a few years into the ICAO timeline, deployment is already well behind schedule. There would have to be a significant acceleration in the rollout of these procedures for the ICAO goal to be met, says Steve Fulton, technical fellow with GE Aviation’s PBN Services. Fulton was speaking at GE’s annual Global PBN Summit in Seattle.
Australia’s competition regulator has approved a transpacific joint business agreement between Oneworld alliance partners Qantas Airways and American Airlines. The approval by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) was widely expected, as it had previously granted a similar transpacific agreement between Virgin Australia and Delta Air Lines.
While Southwest Airlines has flown more than 5,800 required navigation performance (RNP) approaches since January, the carrier says RNP is not yet yielding the expected benefits.
