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.
Stronger performances in Asia and Latin America were two of the main factors behind the Air France-KLM group of airlines posting net profits of €552 million ($643 million) for 3Q 2017, up 1.5% on the year-ago period.
Sweden-based cargo airline West Atlantic is considering looking for additional shareholders to recapitalize operations, in the light of costly delays in bringing in new freighters to its fleet.
