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.
Bahrain has followed Saudi Arabia in halting all air services with Iran. The move follows the execution of a Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr Al-Nimr in Saudia Arabia.