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.
Estonian Air posted a loss of €6.1 million ($8.4 million) for the first nine months of the year, narrowed from the €20.2 million loss for the year-ago period.
Latvian airline airBaltic recorded a third-quarter net profit of €13.2 million ($18.2 million), reversing a €26.72 million loss into a net profit of €0.72 million in the nine months through Sept. 30.
Air Serbia, the former Yugoslav national carrier known as JAT, launched its first service as a rebranded entity Oct. 27, with a flight from Belgrade to Abu Dhabi.