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.
British Airways (BA) will end operations with the Boeing 767 in the 2018 fourth quarter, some 28 years after it received the first examples of the U.S.-built twin aisle.
UK travel operator Thomas Cook has denied reports that it has imminent plans to sell off its airline division, but left the door open to future fleet developments.
South African regional carrier SA Express has received the go-ahead to restart services, nine weeks after the country’s civil aviation regulator grounded the airline.