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.
Midwest Airlines has decided to buy advanced flight planning systems that will be supplied by Lockheed Martin and Austrian company Flugwerkzeuge Aviation Software. Lockheed will be program management lead and system integrator. Midwest will use two products developed by Flugwerkzeuge — a flight planning system called mfs:2 and the Operations User System (OPUS) to manage notices to airmen. These two products will be integrated into Midwest’s operations control center.
The Joint Planning and Development Office — the multi-agency body tasked with creating a U.S. ATM roadmap — expects to release the latest version of its System Integrated Work Plan on Feb. 15. An industry review and comment period will finish March 28. The first version of another important document, the Avionics Road Map, is slated to be completed by JPDO in September. More work will be done on this plan into 2009 and 2010.
Frontier saw strong unit revenue growth in January, based on a load factor increase of 7.3 points. Traffic increased 18.3% for the month, far exceeding the 6.4% capacity growth. Passenger unit revenue climbed 11.7%, compared with last year, with yields increasing by just 0.3%. Enplanements were up 12.5%.
