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.
Sukhoi is pressing ahead with modifications to improve its Superjet SSJ100 and may certificate some or all the modifications earlier than the late-2018 timeframe to which it has committed.
UK long-haul specialist Virgin Atlantic will buy 12 Airbus A350-1000s, Airbus announced at the Farnborough Airshow. The order is worth more than $4.4 billion at list prices.
