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.
With an increasing number of carriers pressing passenger aircraft into service as temporary freighters during the COVID-19 pandemic, Airbus is developing a main cabin cargo-stacking modification for its A330 and A350-family aircraft.
African airlines should urgently start moving airliners to freighting duties to help solve a major shortfall in cargo capacity to and from the continent, according to the International Air Cargo Association (TIACA).
Prospects for the survival of South African regional carrier SA Express appear less likely after officials charged with resurrecting the cash-strapped airline applied for it to be put into liquidation.
