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.
American will give its liquidity a shot in the arm with a new share offering worth up to $300 million, announced this week. Merrill Lynch will act as the sales agent.
Irish and U.K. ATC providers are moving closer to finalizing airspace changes over the Irish Sea that will help accommodate increases in air traffic to Ireland. The changes affect airspace over the east coast of Ireland, and a small area of southwest Scotland. Two options have been proposed by the U.K.’s National Air Traffic Services and the Irish Aviation Authority, with a comment period that was scheduled to expire last week. After this, a formal proposal will be sent to government aviation authorities.
FAA yesterday suffered a communications failure at its flight plan processing facility in Georgia at 1:30 p.m. local time, causing delays at airports across the country. A similar facility in Salt Lake City picked up the slack, but this led to a back-up in flight plan processing, an FAA spokeswoman said. Some FAA facilities were manually processing flight plans. Airports were seeing delays of up to 90 minutes yesterday afternoon, attributed to weather and the communications failure.
