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 recently published the first version of its expanded Operational Evolution Partnership, which lays out the agency's path to the Next Generation Air Transportation System through 2025. The OEP -- launched in 2001 -- has been broadened in both scope and duration. Now it encompasses all of FAA's NextGen-related activities instead of just capacity improvement. However, the original OEP goal of a 30% increase in system capacity by 2013 is still in the plan.
Continental and China Southern are asking the U.S. Transportation Dept. for permission to begin code sharing on U.S.-China flights, which would give both carriers extensive domestic networks from gateway airports.
El Al is making a major push in the U.S. market as it strives to recover from what executives describe as a "perfect storm" of financial blows that struck the airline last year. Airline President Haim Romano told The DAILY that the airline is about to launch a new marketing campaign in the U.S., and El Al is also introducing two new 777-200ERs to the New York-Tel Aviv market next month. The U.S. market -- particularly the New York route -- is crucial to El Al, accounting for as much as a third of its capacity.
