The Air Current

Jon Ostrower is Editor-in-chief of The Air Current. Prior to launching TAC in June 2018, Ostrower served as Aviation Editor for CNN Worldwide, guiding the network's global coverage of the business and operations of flying. Ostrower joined CNN in 2016 following four and half years at the Wall Street Journal. Based first in Chicago and then in Washington, D.C. he covered Boeing, aviation safety and the business of global aerospace. Before that, Ostrower was editor of the award-winning FlightBlogger for Flightglobal and Flight International Magazine covering the development of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and other new aircraft programs from 2007 to 2012. Ostrower, a Boston native, graduated from The George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs with a bachelor's degree in Political Communication. He is based in Seattle.

  • Aircraft Production
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 16 Min Read

Boeing’s long and inevitable road to South Carolina

Boeing has a 30-year vision for North Charleston. Consolidating the 787 Dreamliner program to South...
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 17 Min Read

Colliding interests will force engine makers into a new business model

What’s good for Airbus and Boeing isn’t necessarily good for General Electric, Rolls-Royce and Pratt &...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 11 Min Read

Three Points: Non-Farnborough, predicting traffic, BA sunsets 747

Issue No. 30
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 11 Min Read

Coronavirus shreds the engine maker business model

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a structural flaw in the engine business.
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 12 Min Read

Three Points: 737 Max recertification trials, Comac’s ARJ21 hat trick, Airbus autonomous landings

Issue No. 29
  • Aircraft Development
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 5 Min Read

Boeing, Spirit disband engineering teams designing Aerion supersonic business jet

The stand-down by the plane maker and its largest supplier underscore the complicated strategic dynamics...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 11 Min Read

Three Points: Slattery to GE, 777-8F & A380 combi, staggering airline losses

Issue No. 28
  • Aviation Safety
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 12 Min Read

Boeing’s 737 Max software done, but regulators plot more changes after jet’s return

The decision to add synthetic airspeed or an equivalent system to the 737 Max comes after the company...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 7 Min Read

Three Points: Compass & Breeze, China overtakes the U.S., SpaceX video podcast

Issue No. 27
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 13 Min Read

The Mitsubishi SpaceJet — as we know it today — is dead

From the perspective of its corporate parent, the SpaceJet was no longer a parallel strategy, so much as...
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