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 is contracting with two aerospace companies and three airlines in an effort to test how satellite-based navigation and related avionics can improve airport safety. A team led by Honeywell will receive $3 million to use automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) at Seattle airport and Paine Field. Honeywell will use its own test planes, and pilots from JetBlue and Alaska Airlines. The test will provide “operational input from concept development through flight evaluation and demonstration.”
Despite hefty capacity cuts in October, American’s traffic declined more. The carrier’s mainline load factor dipped 1.5 points to 79% in October, with capacity down 7% and traffic 8.8%. Domestic mainline traffic dropped 11.5% on a 10.3% capacity cut, resulting in load factor declining 1.1 points to 80.2%. American Eagle saw traffic down 15.5%, with capacity dropping 10.8% and load factor sinking 3.9 points to 69.6%.
Oneworld has reached an agreement with WestJet on a corporate travel product, although the parties stress there are no plans for WestJet to join the alliance. The canadaconnect product links the Oneworld and WestJet networks for companies in Canada.
