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 last week applied to the U.S. Transportation Dept. to code share with Royal Jordanian, one of the carriers expected to join the oneworld alliance next year. The American proposal would see Jordanian place its code on 15 American domestic routes out of the New York-Kennedy and Chicago O'Hare hubs. American would put its code on Jordanian flights to Amman from Chicago, New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt. Jordanian flights from Amman to Dubai and Aqaba, Jordan would also be covered by the code share.
American last week revealed plans to further boost its operations out of St. Louis Airport next year, adding capacity to four routes by replacing regional jets with MD-80s. The extra capacity will be added from April 10 and will see American putting another 459 seats into the St. Louis market. This is in addition to an extra MD-80 flight between St. Louis and Dallas/Fort Worth that will be introduced in January.
FAA plans to publish a temporary slot rule for New York LaGuardia Airport that will keep existing hourly rates in place, but will tweak some of the slot restrictions until a more permanent rule can be created for LaGuardia. The agency is issuing the rule to prevent congestion at LaGuardia after the high-density rule (HDR) expires Jan. 1. FAA is working to finish its longer-term rule to handle LaGuardia congestion, but needs an interim fix in the meantime. The interim rule will expire no more than 90 days after the FAA introduces its permanent rule.
