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.
A Boeing 737 of LCC Norwegian has been trapped in Iran for more than three weeks, the victim of a combination of component failure and U.S. sanctions on the Near East nation.
LCC Norwegian recorded its highest annual passenger total in 2018, carrying more than 37 million passengers, but will enter a period of “slower growth” in 2019, CEO Bjørn Kjos said Jan. 7.