Europe & Middle East Correspondent, Air Transport World
London, UK
Summary
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.
The UK government has marginally eased coronavirus restrictions on overseas flights, but the moves seem unlikely to satisfy either airlines or passengers wanting to travel this summer.
Aer Lingus has been burning through an average of more than €1 million ($1.2 million) a day for more than a year and government support funding is insufficient, the airline’s CEO told Irish parliamentarians June 22.
EASA has issued a new airworthiness directive (AD) instructing airlines to carefully check external air data probes before returning aircraft to service after pandemic storage.
