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.
Singapore-based lessor BOC Aviation has delivered a Boeing 777-300ER to Air China, the first in a batch of five aircraft leased to the carrier under a purchase-and-leaseback arrangement first announced in October.
Dubai-based Emirates Airline recorded a net profit of AED786 million ($214 million) for the first half of its 2016-17 financial year, down 75% from AED3.1 billion in the year-ago period.
