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 airport at Lhasa, Tibet, is accepting night flights for the first time in its 43-year history, thanks to required navigation performance approaches and recently installed runway lights. The RNP approaches were created by Naverus and tested by Air China and China’s Civil Aviation Administration. Daytime RNP approaches have been used at Lhasa since 2005.
FAA suffered an ATC equipment breakdown in the New York area on the morning of June 30, which the controllers’ union said resulted in major delays at most of the New York area airports. The data interface between the New York terminal and en route facilities was down from about 6:30 a.m. to 8:40 a.m., according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. This required controllers to hand off traffic manually between the two facilities, slowing the traffic flow.
