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.
Winter storms disrupted the first weekend of the holiday travel period throughout the U.S., with runway closures causing hundreds of delays at airports across the nation and more of the same expected through the early part of this week.
American and its flight attendants union on Friday asked the National Mediation Board to take over their contract negotiations, meaning all three of the airline’s major unions will be involved in mediated contract talks.
FAA is expected to roll out the next version of its NextGen implementation plan at a Jan. 22 meeting in Washington. FAA estimates that weather accounts for about 70% of flight delays, and significantly cutting that number is a major NextGen focus. The agency and industry partners are demonstrating new concepts at Daytona Beach airport that may lead to predictive weather tools in FAA’s traffic management advisor and en-route automation modernization systems.
