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 this week reported that its load factor increased by 4.1 percentage points to 85.1% in July, with traffic up 8.1% on 3% more capacity. Domestic traffic rose 6.4%, capacity increased 1.2% and load factor grew 4.2 points to 85.8%. International traffic was up 11.5% on a 6.5% capacity rise, while loads grew 3.8 points to 83.8%. American Eagle reported 22.8% traffic growth, a capacity increase of 20%, and load factor up 1.7 points to 74.9%. -AS
The U.K. and Spanish air traffic control organizations yesterday signed an agreement under which they will jointly develop a new ATC system to be used in both countries' airspace, which they claim is the first time any air navigation service providers have collaborated in a commercial venture like this.
AirTran this week unveiled its new-look website, which the airline says has a lot more features to improve the booking process. The airline said it has worked on the development of the new site for the past two years The site was redesigned with new HTML language and coding, and AirTran believes it has "a cleaner look" and more streamlined pages.
