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.
While the fight over Australia's international airline market has been capturing headlines lately, major takeover moves by Virgin Australia are set to turn up the heat in an increasingly fierce competition on the domestic front.
Virgin Australia expects that buying a majority stake in Tiger Airways Australia and acquiring regional carrier Skywest will give it the critical mass to compete with rival Qantas in new domestic market sectors.
EU lawmakers are becoming increasingly concerned that European states will not fully implement cross-border airspace consolidation before a December deadline. The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for the acceleration of efforts to form functional airspace blocks (FABs), which are a crucial element of the broader Single European Sky program. The FABs are intended to replace the complicated web of airspace boundaries with a small number of much larger blocks.
