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 has begun operational use of the airport surveillance system known as ASDE-X at Chicago O'Hare Airport, answering calls by lawmakers to speed up deployment of the system at O'Hare to help reduce runway incursions. According to an FAA employee Web site, ASDE-X will be officially commissioned at O'Hare in about a month. But the system has already been certified, and controllers are already using ASDE-X in an initial operating capability (IOC) mode.
JAL will cut back its weekly flights to Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Paris, while increasing frequencies on high-demand flights from Tokyo to Guangzhou and New Delhi. The Tokyo-Paris route will shrink from 10 weekly flights to seven from Nov. 2. On Oct. 27, Tokyo-Hong Kong flights will decrease from 17 to 14, and Los Angeles frequencies will drop from eight to seven.
A U.K. High Court judge has placed restrictions on a planned environmental protest at London Heathrow Airport, which reduces the risk of airport disruption during a holiday weekend.
