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.
Security wait times at U.S. airports over the Thanksgiving break were generally no longer than last year, despite tightened screening rules, aviation industry groups and TSA said yesterday.
The Airbus A380 completed the last of its route-proving flights yesterday, and Airbus said the aircraft met all of its performance goals, both in the air and on the ground. The final flight arrived at Toulouse after departing Vancouver Wednesday in heavy snow. The route-proving flights lasted 18 days, covering 69,000 nm in 152 flight hours. Route-proving is the last of the trials before type certification, scheduled in mid-December.
A high-level White House policy meeting scheduled yesterday was probably the cause of congressional concerns that a controversial airline foreign ownership rule was about to be issued by the Bush Administration, industry observers tell The DAILY.
