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.
Since Mehmet Nane became CEO of Turkey’s second-largest airline, low-cost carrier Pegasus Airlines in March 2016, the country has been through a tourism ban by Russia (now removed), an attempted military coup and several terrorist attacks.
Emirates Airline is working to get more passengers book direct with the carrier rather than through online travel agents and global distribution system (GDS) operators .
