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.
Aviation regulators and governments must exempt cargo airline flight deck personnel from increasingly tight travel restrictions if vital supplies are not to dry up in the global health crisis, IATA and the European Regions Airline Association (ERA) contend.
Cathay Pacific Airways, which was one of the earliest airlines to be heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, has moved to improve its liquidity situation with the sale and leaseback of six Boeing 777-300ERs.
Several Middle East nations have severely limited, or entirely banned, commercial air services as they struggle to contain the spread of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus.
