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.
Continental saw its consolidated load factor drop by 2.2 percentage points in July, as a significant capacity increase was only matched by a slight traffic rise.
FAA last week released the draft of its latest five-year “Flight Plan,” including deployment goals for satellite-navigation procedures and targets for helping China improve its aviation safety. The agency intends to publish at least 300 required navigation performance (RNP) approach procedures through fiscal 2013. It wants to implement 50 area navigation (RNAV) departure and arrival routes per year through 2013, and 12 other RNAV routes. In fiscal 2009, FAA plans to publish 300 wide area augmentation system (WAAS) approaches.
American’s pilots union is asking for court permission to advise members of their right to refuse voluntary overtime, in an effort to reduce furloughs. The request for approval is being filed in district court in Washington, D.C. The union is also preparing to present the airline with a “furlough mitigation counter-proposal.”
