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.
Qatar Airways is bringing some of its Airbus A380s back into service, as the airline seeks to offset capacity shortfalls caused by the grounding of its A350s.
A quartet of newly acquired Boeing 777Fs are headed into European air freight operations as the last of Lufthansa Cargo’s McDonnell Douglas MD-11s prepares for its final flights.