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.
Air France will begin operations with new Boeing 787-9s on Jan. 9, 2017, with a service from Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG) to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the airline announced Sept. 20.
Greece’s Aegean Airlines saw its 2016 first-half results slip into the red, recording a net loss of €23.7 million ($26.3 million) compared to a net profit of €14.8 million a year ago.
Turkish low-cost carrier (LCC) Pegasus Airlines is unlikely to be profitable this year because of the geopolitical climate in Turkey that resulted in a downturn in tourism, but the LCC expects to rebound in 2017, CEO Mehmet Nane told ATW.