Based in London, Alan is Europe & Middle East correspondent at Air Transport World.
A daily newspaper journalist in the UK and Middle East for 15 years, he then joined the UK's most successful corporate publishing company before setting up his own company in 2004. He has worked with ATW since 2014.
Latin America will need 2,540 new passenger and freighter aircraft between 2015 and 2034 to meet long-term growth in the region, Airbus predicts in its latest Global Market Forecast (GMF).
Virgin Atlantic has signed a codeshare agreement with UK-based regional Flybe for a network of routes connecting its London Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow operations with 18 regional airports in the UK and Western Europe.
The head of the United Arab Emirates’ aviation regulator has appealed for a halt to speculation on the cause of the crash of a flydubai Boeing 737-800 at the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on March 19.