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.
Fast-growing Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines is seeking new ways to expand into Russia and Central Asia as it tries to combat restrictive regulatory regimes in the region.
ATR’s planned 90-seat Next Generation Turboprop (NGTP) will maintain the same design philosophy behind today’s models—“Simple, simple, simple”—said ATR CEO Filippo Bagnato.
Few airline markets today are more challenging than Europe. Much of the continent is mired in an economic recession, carriers’ profit margins are wafer-thin and the market shares of some of the region’s largest players are increasingly being eroded by Gulf region competitors.
