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 plans to end its direct service between its Dallas/Fort Worth hub and Zurich in October, partly to use the capacity on new, more promising, international routes it is launching.
Friday was the worst day of the year so far for flight delays in the U.S., caused by bad weather and equipment failure, FAA reports. There were about 3,200 total delays Friday, comprising 2,573 arrival and departure delays and 629 en route flow delays. The New York area was particularly hard hit by three lines of thunderstorms that marched across the country. The other problem was a failure in the National Airspace Data Interchange Network, which FAA uses to process flight plans (DAILY, June 11).
Lufthansa Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber is changing the airline's strategy for long-haul routes -- the airline will start serving long-haul services from secondary markets in Germany in summer of 2008, Mayrhuber revealed. He declined to disclose more details at this point, but likely bases for long-haul aircraft are Stuttgart, Duesseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin.
