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.
Deterioration of the Swedish kroner against other currencies, a longer, colder-than-normal winter and rising fuel prices were among the factors that affected Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) in the first half of its 2017-18 financial year, the airline said May 30.