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.
Hawaiian Airlines says it will not draw down service to Japan in the wake of the March 11 earthquake, and the carrier is confident demand will bounce back relatively soon.
Alaska Airlines’ computer system was restored to full operating capability by the morning of March 27 after an outage caused havoc across the airline’s network through most of the previous day. The central computer system for both Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air went offline early on March 26 after a transformer blew while a backup power system was being installed. This caused 150 flight cancellations, which Alaska says affected 12,150 customers. There were also significant numbers of flight delays of two hours or more.
While Airbus and Boeing have remarkably similar objectives in air traffic management (ATM), recent moves by Airbus highlight contrasting ideas about how their efforts should be structured. Both companies say their interest in ATM lies in expanding airspace capacity to accommodate more new passenger jets. This means they are actively involved in the U.S. NextGen and European Sesar air traffic modernization programs; and since this is not an area in which they compete, the traditional rivals work together on many ATM projects.
