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.
Airbus has begun the latest stage in the A350 XWB development program with the arrival of the third development aircraft, MSN3, in Bolivia for high-altitude testing.
Low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has secured an agreement from Boeing to beef up maintenance teams for its fleet of 787 Dreamliners following a series of technical problems that has seen the Scandinavian carrier repeatedly having to lease short-notice replacement aircraft.
Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways, which announced it will accelerate its expansion drive for 2014, released a welter of statistics documenting its activities in 2013.
