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 respective collapse and entry into administration of Etihad Airways’ equity partner airlines airberlin and Alitalia, a subsequent restructuring and rising fuel costs led to another heavy loss for the Abu Dhabi-based carrier in 2017.
Etihad Airways recorded a “core loss”—equivalent to operating loss for its day-to-day airline operations—of $1.5 billion in 2017, narrowed from $1.95 billion in 2016.
