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 is scheduled to meet with its pilots' union next week to discuss a roadmap for upcoming contract negotiations, and the union is hoping the negotiations will begin this summer. The Air Line Pilots Association wants the talks to start earlier than the April 2008 deadline established by the existing contract, a union spokeswoman said. ALPA wrote to airline management in May with its request, and "the company responded favorably," the spokeswoman said. The current contract becomes amendable Dec. 31, 2008.
American plans to end its direct service between its Dallas/Fort Worth hub and Zurich in October, partly to use the capacity on new, more promising, international routes it is launching.
Friday was the worst day of the year so far for flight delays in the U.S., caused by bad weather and equipment failure, FAA reports. There were about 3,200 total delays Friday, comprising 2,573 arrival and departure delays and 629 en route flow delays. The New York area was particularly hard hit by three lines of thunderstorms that marched across the country. The other problem was a failure in the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, which FAA uses to process flight plans (DAILY, June 11).
