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.
Civil wars spread in the MENA region, periodically rendering the airspace of those nations unusable by airlines, while the running story in the air transport world was the increasingly acrimonious accusations by US and European carriers against the Gulf’s largest carriers.
Reaction to Wednesday’s long-awaited announcement of the preferred option for a new runway at London Heathrow Airport in South East England was swift, with predictably mixed views.
