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.
Connections between Greece and the Gulf have increased noticeably after two carriers—Gulf Air and Aegean Airlines—have launched services between the region and Athens.
Air Seychelles has posted what it describes as strong result for the 2014 first-quarter, which saw a 38.2% increase in passenger numbers to 95,372 compared to the same period in 2013.
Long-mooted plans to merge Libyan Airlines and the North African country’s second carrier, Afriqiyah, appear to have been abandoned, at least for the near future.
