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.
Latvian ACMI and charter specialist SmartLynx Airlines plans to enlarge its fleet substantially by the end of 2018, as it seeks to escape from the high levels of seasonality in its main European market.
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has bought Ireland-based lessor, the AWAS group of companies, from private equity investor Terra Firma Capital Partners and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.
