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 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was definitively caused by a BUK surface-to-air missile, according to the final report of the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) issued Oct 13.
An Egyptian-registered Tristar Air Airbus A300 freighter crashed near the Somali capital Mogadishu around 1930 local time Oct. 12, according to local reports.
Jazeera Airways of Kuwait has received shareholder approval to cut its capital by more than a half, as it adjusts from having closed its airline leasing business.
