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.
Ryanair (FR) has reported a first-half profit of €596 million ($762 million), up 10% compared to the year-ago period, on revenues of €3.1 billion, up 15% year-over-year.
Latvian flag-carrier AirBaltic (BT) has posted a third-quarter net profit of LVL4.8 million ($8.9 million) in the third quarter and anticipates ending the year with figures that will outstrip its estimates.
September brought a continued slowing of commercial aviation’s rate of traffic growth, with regions increasingly showing variations in their fortunes, according to IATA.
