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.
– A leading airport industry group is urging Congress to move more quickly to pass an FAA reauthorization bill, but it appears the Senate will not vote on its version until mid-October at the earliest, and a short-term extension may be passed in the interim.
The U.S. aviation system collectively needs to focus more on improving safety before — instead of after — a problem becomes apparent, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt told a large gathering of safety experts yesterday. Babbitt noted that “it seems that something has to happen” to prompt a particular safety campaign. “In an industry this mature, that shouldn’t be the case…We have to do a better job of issuing a call to action before we need to,” he said during a keynote address at the FAA’s International Safety Forum in Washington.
Japan Airlines is further adjusting its international schedule by cutting its remaining passenger flights between Osaka and Seoul Incheon, and its freighter flights between Tokyo and London. Both changes will be effective Oct. 25. The carrier recently cut its Osaka-Seoul flights from 14 to seven a week, and is now eliminating them altogether. Instead, it will boost its flights from Osaka to Seoul’s Gimpo Airport from seven to 14 per week, using Boeing 737-800s.
