Editor-in-Chief, Arabian Aerospace & African Aerospace
Summary
Alan is a former actor, an award-winning foreign correspondent with strong ties to the Middle East through involvement with the launches of Arab Times in Kuwait and Gulf Daily News in Bahrain.
In 2009 he launched Arabian Aerospace with the Times Aerospace Group and in 2013 launched African Aerospace. He was the consultant editor to Flightglobal’s show dailies teams around the world and is the author of the “industry bible” Flight Pocket Guide to Business Aircraft.
He is a regular broadcaster and is the consultant editor-in-chief and presenter for Times Aerospace TV and the global aerospace channel FINN TV and is a regular commentator on aviation issues for many global broadcasting channels. He is conference chairman of the Aviation Africa summit and the Aviation MENA summit and has moderated or chaired conferences for organisations such as IATA, DCAA, the Global Aerospace Summit and business aviation associations in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
He is five-times winner of an Aerospace Journalist of the Year award and in 2014 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 2018/19 Arabian Aerospace was recognised as the world’s best “international” aviation magazine.
UAE-based flight planning and dispatch specialists Skyplan Services was at the MEBAA Show in Dubai to unveil its new flight dispatchers’ training school.
The sun set on the final day of the MEBAA Show in Dubai today bringing to an end the chance to see a diverse array of aircraft – and all the associated goods and services – that make up the business and private aviation world, from watches, flying boats and the biggest bed in the air.
Samer Majali, the chief executive and vice chairman of Jordan's national carrier Royal Jordanian, speaks frankly to TATV about the airline's challenges and the reasons behind its new investment in developing a third fleet to support its goal of being the carrier of the Levant.
