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.

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  • Courtney Miller
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The case against the Airbus A220 and Embraer E2

Coronavirus brings challenges for both Airbus’s A220 and Embraer’s E2 in adoption of the small...
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  • Courtney Miller
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Embraer can survive solo, but outlook mixed after Boeing breakup

Detailed analysis shows new opportunities and old challenges for the Brazilian manufacturer after Boeing...
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  • Courtney Miller
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Coronavirus will force airlines to make familiar asks of pilots to stay afloat

Concessionary labor agreements ahead, but don't expect the deep cuts from the 2000s.
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  • Courtney Miller
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The airlines are staring down a slow and uneven recovery from coronavirus

Modeling a second-wave hit to an airline recovery
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  • Courtney Miller
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The airplanes that have survived the aviation apocalypse

Small jetliners get immediate priority in coronavirus-afflicted fleets.
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  • Courtney Miller
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U.S. regional airlines will play crucial role for big carriers after coronavirus

To maintain their vast domestic networks in a downturn, airlines are going to have to lean on their...
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  • Courtney Miller
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Coronavirus plunges aviation into singular event, traditional recovery models useless

Making sense of the aviation industry’s greatest crisis.
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  • Courtney Miller
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As coronavirus pummels air travel, lessons from 9/11 on what may come next

The airline industry has never fully recovered from 9/11 - it realized and eventually adapted to a new...
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  • Courtney Miller
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Once scarce, coronavirus creates a glut of unneeded airliners

Too many airplanes, not enough passengers in COVID-19 fallout.
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  • Courtney Miller
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How Southwest has adapted to life without the 737 Max

Nearly a year into the grounding of Boeing's 737 Max, Southwest has reshaped its complex network in...
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