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.
Iberia’s parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG), has accepted a Spanish government-appointed mediator’s compromise proposal to end the bitter industrial strife resulting from major restructuring at the loss-making Spanish flag-carrier.
With Europe suffering from one of the worst bouts of economic turmoil in recent history, it takes more than the luck of the Irish for a small airline from the continent’s westernmost fringes to make an impact on a new route.