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.
Airlines face losing control of their customers to reservation systems such as Google FlightSearch unless they take measures to personalize their offers to passengers, audiences at the Aviation Festival in London heard Sept. 9.
Low-cost carrier (LCC) flydubai reduced its deficit for the 2016 first half, registering a net loss of AED89.9 million ($24.5 million), a 39% improvement on the same period a year ago.
French all-business class carrier La Compagnie will suspend transatlantic service between London Luton and New York from Sept. 25, citing the fragile European economic climate.
