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.
The U.S. Transportation Dept. yesterday granted $200 million to Washington Dulles Airport, which will pay for more than half of the airport's fourth runway. The letter-of-intent will give the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority $10 million a year in the next 10 years. Dulles has been "growing too fast to just tinker around the edges," and the new runway will significantly boost capacity, said Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta.
House lawmakers last week recommended that the major aviation program cuts made in the Fiscal Year 2007 budget be reversed, labeling infrastructure funding reductions as "extremely short-sighted." Members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved the committee's views and estimates of the 2007 budget by voice vote. This committee has oversight of FAA, but it will be the House Appropriations Committee that will draft the House proposal for FAA's FY2007 funding.
The Israel Airports Authority says it has struck a deal with FAA to buy about $2.5 million worth of air traffic control displays. The color displays, made by Lockheed Martin, will replace displays at Ben Gurion Airport as part of a modernization program. They are the same displays used by FAA in many of its terminal radar approach control facilities. The displays are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year. -AS
