Russia
Air India joins aircraft boom, but history of airline busts loom
Also, industrial and geopolitical realities in China give India a growing role in Boeing’s supply chain.
Russian titanium avoids the crossfire between east and west
The industrial politics of titanium leaves the precious aerospace metal out of the economic warfare...
A slowing global economy is still pushing aviation higher
Even with the IMF’s downward revision for global growth, aviation’s tailwinds after the pandemic are...
The Russian aircraft fleet is set on a course to crumble, but it won’t happen overnight
The nationalization and theft of the Russian civil aircraft fleet is a watershed moment.
The western airliner fleet inside Russia: An interactive data visualization
Where all the western aircraft inside Russia are and who operates & owns them.
The airlines that win and lose with Russian airspace closed
The closure of Russian airspace to key global airlines gives some a significant economic benefit and...
TAC/Forum: Russia, Ukraine and the global aerospace supply chain
On March 8, 2022, The Air Current hosted an in-depth and candid discussion with Dr. Kevin Michaels,...
Inside a failed attempt to repo an Aeroflot A321neo in Egypt
Amid western sanctions, Russia tries to hold on to its fleet, threatening to collapse the international...
Boeing reliance on Russia underscores aerospace industry’s failure to have it all
The western civil and defense aerospace business has long believed that Russia could be its customer,...
Disconnecting Russia from aviation’s world order came gradually – then all at once
The economic and industrial disconnection of Russia from global aviation has been escalating over the...