The Air Current

Courtney Miller is Managing Director of Analysis for The Air Current. Miller most recently spent 10-years with Bombardier Aerospace, serving as director, North America sales for the company’s commercial aircraft line and led airline marketing and analysis for the western hemisphere for airlines in North and South America and the community of global aircraft lessors. Miller is also founder of visualapproach.io, where he merged industry history and analysis with insightful and beautiful data visualization to illustrate contemporary trends. Miller is a 3,000-hour U.S. airline pilot and began his career flying for U.S. regional airline Comair. He holds a Masters of Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle University and a Bachelors of Science in Aviation Technology from Purdue University. He is based in the Dallas, Texas Metroplex.

  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 19 Min Read

Engines for A330 freighter will propel or stall its prospects

Decisions made by Airbus in the late 1980s are guiding the future second act for the A330 as a converted...
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 15 Min Read

Airbus’s A330 path to cargo conversion success faces an uphill battle

The A330 can be a good freighter, but the aircraft’s peculiarities offer a challenge to owners and...
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 15 Min Read

The Airbus A330 is lost in the pandemic’s economic Twilight Zone

The venerable twin is stuck between aircraft that are better at being old and those that are better at...
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 4 Min Read

China’s momentary air travel collapse and rebound

How China shut down its air travel system for Lunar New Year.
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 18 Min Read

Lost airline revenues tip of the iceberg for domestic testing

Mandated COVID-19 testing for U.S. domestic travel would cost airlines billions, set recovery back to...
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 11 Min Read

The airlines are forked. Business and leisure flying split can heal

The factors that will define the air travel recovery in 2021.
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 12 Min Read

Airlines survived 2020, but as flyers return their dollars won’t

As 2020 draws to a close, TAC Analysis reflects on the economic chaos wrought by COVID-19 on capacity,...
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 21 Min Read

Emerging markets both spur and limit Embraer’s E3 turboprop potential

Trains, planes and automobiles and the constraints facing the E3 in different regions around the world.
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 10 Min Read

Even our willingness to fly is partisan

Marking your ballot and buying a plane ticket have more in common than you think.
  • Analysis
  • Courtney Miller
  • 8 Min Read

Breaking the statistical link between COVID-19 cases and air travel demand

The connection between passenger traffic growth and new infections is mathematically meaningless.
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