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.

  • 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...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 9 Min Read

Three Points: Airplanes of e-commerce, a traveler’s coronavirus colonoscopy, emergency autoland certified

Issue No. 26
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 14 Min Read

Mitsubishi moves its SpaceJet off the launch pad and into limbo

Coronavirus and an increasingly impatient parent put Mitsubishi and its M90 and M100 SpaceJet strategy...
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 13 Min Read

Boeing closes the door on Embraer, opens one for Mitsubishi

Boeing’s own strategy has shifted from ambitions of acquisition to a willingness to sell a piece of...
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 14 Min Read

The end of Boeing Brasil Commercial and the re-birth of Embraer into the unknown

The $4.2 billion partnership was financially impossible for Boeing to shoulder, but how it escaped from...
  • Commentary
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 9 Min Read

Time and money, not gimmicks, are going to get people flying again

Two things aviation can't control, when a vaccine arrives and economic security, are going to drive...
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 16 Min Read

Airbus and Boeing hustle to keep airplanes flowing to a collapsed market

Everything is broken and everyone is embracing weird dynamics to keep airplanes moving that no one needs.
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 11 Min Read

Three Points: Airbus production cuts, a Boeing bailout, future freighters

Issue No. 25
  • Aircraft Production
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 19 Min Read

The uncertain future for Boeing’s twin 787 assembly lines in Washington and South Carolina

With the collapse in demand forced by COVID-19, can Everett and Charleston Dreamliner assembly lines...
  • Airlines
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 12 Min Read

Confusion among U.S. airlines as airplanes fly virtually empty to get bailout funds

U.S. airline industry bailout creates unintended consequences. TAC updates its recovery model.
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