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.
Air Serbia, the rebranded former JAT Airways, marked its first full year of operation with a net profit of €2.7 million ($3 million), a sharp reversal of its 2013 €73 million loss.
Today, 3-D printing or additive manufacturing (AM) is rapidly passing from the “gee-whiz” stage to an accepted, if still novel, aspect of the aerospace industry.
International Airlines Group (IAG)—parent company of British Airways, Iberia and Vueling— reported a 2014 net profit of just over €1 billion ($1.1 billion) for the year ended Dec. 31, 2014, compared to €151 million for the previous year.