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.
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines ended the first half with a net profit of TRY44.1 million ($22.6 million), reversed from a TRY70.1 million loss for the same period last year.
German carrier airberlin recorded improved second-quarter figures year-over-year, but warned that difficult market conditions were making the chances of reaching its targets “increasingly challenging.”