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.
All flights in and out of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, were canceled Wednesday morning as firefighters tackled a major blaze in the terminal building.
Influential London mayor Boris Johnson has shuffled his preferences for the site of a future London airport. Johnson is a steadfast opponent of expanding London Heathrow and for several years has been promoting a new airport built on an artificial island in the outer Thames Estuary, east of the capital.
