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.
Poland’s largest charter company, Enter Air, had one of its aircraft seized at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for several hours for non-payment of fines for noise violations at the airport.
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines recorded a sharp deterioration in its half-yearly financial figures, with the airline making a net loss of TL202.9 million ($70 million) widened from a deficit of TL42.2 million for the same period last year.
Philippines-based Cebu Pacific Air Group posted a net income of PHP7.7 billion ($164 million) for the half-year ended June 30, a substantial improvement on PHP5.2 billion for the same period last year.