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.
A survey of 16,000 Wizz Air passengers in December 2025 and January 2026 found most believe commercial aviation is causing more pollution that it really is.
TAP Air Portugal plans to continue its course of “disciplined and sustainable growth” in 2026, the airline says, with a focus on transatlantic services.
Latin America’s largest carrier, LATAM, may not be receiving its first Embraer E195 E2 until late this year, but Brazil’s president Lula da Silva has given the airline’s deal with the OEM an unusual seal of presidential approval.
