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.

  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 9 Min Read

Three Points: NYT, AGM on MAX, distance runners, de Havilland reborn

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

Boeing chases range frontier on 787 and 777X to win Air New Zealand, Qantas deals

Boeing promised Air New Zealand a big 787 performance boost.
  • Aircraft Development
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 10 Min Read

Airbus makes a case for disruptive stability in the A321XLR

The aircraft has become the gateway to delivering lowest-cost access to each manufacturer’s own...
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 10 Min Read

Three Points: No E3 (for now), Airbus + Bombardier, A Mighty Max Mess

Issue No. 4
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 8 Min Read

Three Points: TAC in TLS, BizAv’s green necessity, Thursday Max meetings

Issue No. 3
  • Company Culture
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 9 Min Read

Inside Boeing: Sadness, frustration, anger, uncertainty & focus after 737 Max crashes

“If people don’t trust to fly us, then we have nothing."
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 9 Min Read

Three Points: U.S.-China tariff fight, 737 Max at two months, WestJet, Onex (& Delta?)

Issue No. 2
  • Aircraft Development
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 13 Min Read

Mitsubishi faces a rising monopoly as the sun sets on Bombardier

Mitsubishi is quietly, but very actively, changing course with its MRJ70.
  • Three Points
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 7 Min Read

Three Points: Monday for Max, divesting Belfast, Aeroflot’s evacuation disaster

Issue No. 1
  • Aircraft Development
  • Jon Ostrower
  • 16 Min Read

Japan and Mitsubishi find their path together for MRJ certification

It was once a case of the "blind leading the blind."
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