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.
Airlines operating the Boeing 777 will soon be able to add an extra year to the period between C-checks, thanks to new guidelines that Boeing expects to publish. Under the previous Maintenance Review Board report, 777s had to undergo five-day C-checks every 25 months. The new MRB report will extend this maintenance interval to 37 months. In addition to C-checks, some line maintenance intervals will be extended from 100 to 125 days.
FAA needs to establish -- and adhere to -- a detailed schedule to make sure that the agency's enormous telecommunications replacement program stays on course, the U.S. Transportation Dept.'s Inspector General said last week.
The mayors of 11 small Texas cities served by American are calling for the mayors of Fort Worth and Dallas to consider how changes to the Wright Amendment would hurt service to other Texas cities.
