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.
An anonymous white-painted Airbus A320 may not seem an aircraft likely to set the pulse racing. But to staff at Romania’s Aerostar facility it is the harbinger of a drive to expand the company’s civil MRO business.
UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said an emergency landing May 24 by a British Airways Airbus A319 at London Heathrow Airport was caused by the engine cowling doors being left unlatched following maintenance.
