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.
Norwegian Air International (NAI) has delayed plans for new services from Cork Airport in the Irish Republic to Boston in the light of the continued delay by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) in granting a license for NAI flights.
The US government has granted permission to Boeing to talk to Iranian airlines, as the Southwest Asian nation emerges from sanctions imposed as part of international opposition to its attempts to develop its nuclear technology.