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
  • 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.
  • Airlines
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 14 Min Read

As coronavirus empties the sky of passenger planes, air cargo marches on

With passenger airlines grounded, air cargo operators are carrying a heavy load.
  • Supply Chain
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 11 Min Read

The financial crisis brewing in the supply chain underneath the world’s airlines

“I don’t think anyone has processed the shockwave that is about to go through."
  • Airlines
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 12 Min Read

Coronavirus pushes U.S. airlines to the brink of some form of shutdown

Whether by government intervention, market forces or labor action, the aviation industry in the U.S. is...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 10 Min Read

Three Points: European travel ban’s fine print, Boeing shock, coronavirus and Italian aerospace

Issue No. 24
  • Industry Strategy
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 8 Min Read

A jittery industry begins to question if business travel will rebound after coronavirus

And so, an industry ponders, what is on the other side of the COVID-19 crisis?
  • Airlines
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 10 Min Read

Coronavirus is seizing the engine of global commercial aviation

“It’s just like 9/11, just that you can still fly."
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