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.
Gulf Air (GF) has in-sourced various maintenance and engineering activities, including aircraft systems and propulsion engineering; maintenance fleet planning; inventory tech management; and base maintenance for A checks and workshops.
Air France (AF) has called for a 20% cut in costs and a reduction of more than 5,100 jobs by December 2013 as part of its Transform 2015 strategic plan to restore profitability.
