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.
Efforts to return some 150,000 customers of failed leisure operator Thomas Cook Airlines are scheduled to conclude this weekend, with the UK’s aviation regulator hailing the success of what has been described as the country’s largest peacetime repatriation effort.