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 Middle East retained its position as one of the world’s most dynamic regions for airline growth, with several of the region’s smaller players following the “big three” of Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways in expanding their fleets and route networks.
Egyptian investigators are reportedly sending the damaged flight data and cockpit voice recorders of the crashed Egyptair Airbus A320 to French air accident investigation agency BEA, after failing to extract information from them, according to multiple media sources.