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.
Airservices Australia has selected Metron Aviation to supply a traffic flow management system, which will support Airservices’ gate-to-gate collaborative decision making (CDM) initiatives. The contract covers 15 years if all options are exercised. The companies are not releasing the value of the deal.
Lockheed Martin expects to take on new air traffic management (ATM) modernization projects for FAA as part of a broader contract team led by Boeing. The Boeing team won a $1.7 billion, 10-year contract from FAA to support the NextGen effort, one of three such awards totaling more than $4.3 billion that were announced recently under the agency’s System Engineering 2020 (SE2020) program. The two other teams are led by ITT Corp. and General Dynamics.
Cathay Pacific CEO Tony Tyler says the rate of demand recovery this year has validated the extent of the carrier’s order deferrals last year. The carrier delayed Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s, and Tyler says the carrier probably would have deferred more if manufacturers had been willing. However, Tyler says the length of the deferrals has proven appropriate. “I’m glad we didn’t postpone longer than we did...It has worked out quite well.”
