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.
The UK has given a noncommittal response to US demands that security on US-bound flights be stepped up in the face of mounting terrorist threats to civil aviation.
European airline passengers are paying excessive airport charges, particularly at monopoly airports and airports which operate under the so-called ‘dual till’ system, according to airline lobby group Airlines for Europe (A4E).
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.
