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.
German investor Intro Aviation—which has finalized the acquisition of Irish regional CityJet and its subsidiary Belgium-based VLM—is looking to replace its fleet of Avro RJ85 aircraft and will decide on the type “by the end of this year,” a senior executive said Thursday.
UK-based startup Odyssey Airlines has decided to use crowdfunding—a collection of finances from backers—to raise £5 million ($8.4 million) of equity capital as it pursues plans for a mid-2016 launch.
