Charles Alcock is managing editor of the AIN Media Group, having rejoined the company in 2019. He has been an aviation journalist since 1986, and previously worked for AIN from 1990 to 2017, most recently as editor-in-chief. His main focus is on covering new aviation technology and business models, as well as international news.
Having been raised in the London area, Alcock studied at the University of Manchester in the UK and earned an honors degree in Politics and Modern History. He speaks English and French, and some German.

Managing Editor

Charles Alcock

People generally leave major international airshows exhausted after a week spent traipsing around vast sites trying to get an unrealistic amount of work done. This was probably true for aerospace executives departing the 2010 edition of the 
<link airshow-convention-news>Farnborough International show, which had its final trade day today, but they may well also have left with a new sense of exhilaration from the unexpectedly high volume of new airliner business announced during the event.
With more than a full day’s trading still to go, the sales tally was close to topping $40 billion, with most of this being airliners. In many cases, deals involved firming up earlier provisional commitments, meaning that purists would dismiss this as not amounting to new business. This interpretation misses the point: the fact is those deals could not be firmed up until the carriers concerned could be sure that demand is strong enough to merit the fleet growth and that they could secure the financing to make the purchases (a factor that has been all too evidently absent since the last Farnborough show in 2008).
A lot of the new business came from, predictably, the Middle East, but also from Latin America and Asia–providing a welcome reassurance that these key emerging air transport markets are still kicking in with more growth even if Europe and North America are still sluggish. Full details of all the Farnborough news can be found at <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/" target="_blank">www.ainonline.com</a>.

Farnborough Show Gives Air Transport Sector a Welcome Lift

People generally leave major international airshows exhausted after a week spent traipsing around vast sites trying to get an unrealistic amount of work do

2024 Corporate Aviation Leadership Summit

AIN Products

SUBSCRIPTIONS

RESOURCES

ABOUT AIN