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 scale of the challenge facing new South African Airways (SAA) CEO Vuyani Jarana has been brought into sharp focus with the announcement of vastly-worsened financial figures for the 2016-17 financial year.
More than 600,000 passengers have either taken advantage of increased co-operation between Emirates Airline and LCC sister-company flydubai, or plan to do so over coming months, the LCC.
