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.
FAA has revised its annual aviation forecast to reflect a much slower demand recovery than previously expected, although load factor growth continues to surprise. Projections in the 20-year forecast show there won’t be a “rapid recovery [or] snap-back” to pre-downturn growth models, said Roger Schaufele, FAA’s statistics and forecast manager. FAA is seeing “no sign of the pent-up demand” that has been a precursor to rapid recoveries seen in the past.
Aircraft movements at the Port-au-Prince Airport in Haiti are beginning to ease, according to the Australian military air traffic controllers, who are part of the relief effort. When the five-member Australian controller detachment arrived at the beginning of February, they were seeing about 500 aircraft movements a day. Now, there are about 350 movements a day, according to Flight Lieutenant Matthew Ferguson-McLellan of the Royal Australian Air Force.
As more carriers are certified to participate in its satellite-surveillance program, Nav Canada is establishing airspace where equipped aircraft will receive priority handling. Nav Canada has deployed an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) network in the Hudson Bay region, a crossroads for several international routes where there is a gap in radar surveillance. This ADS-B system has been operational for about a year, and a new network has just been installed on the northeast coast to cover parts of transatlantic routes.
