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.
Both new and existing African airlines are showing that it is possible to operate successfully and exploit new openings, despite longstanding difficulties including high visa costs, patchy infrastructure and poor regional connectivity.