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.
U.S. regulators are playing a crucial role in reshaping the airline industry as they weigh three proposals for major new international partnerships. Any one of these proposals would tilt the industry’s balance of power, but taken together they represent a shift of seismic proportions.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of a federal agency that has had an undeniably profound impact on modern U.S. society. The FAA helped usher in the commercial jet era, and played a key role in turning aviation into one of the world’s essential industries. What was then known as the Federal Aviation Agency was established by Congress in 1958, in the same year that Pan American World Airways launched the first U.S. scheduled jet service between New York and Paris. This was also the first year that more people crossed the Atlantic by air than by sea.
Air New Zealand managed to keep its profits for the fiscal year ending June 30 almost in line with the previous year’s, although the carrier hopes to park some widebody aircraft as part of its network streamlining.
