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A slowing global economy is still pushing aviation higher

Courtney Miller·March 30, 2022

In this latest TAC Analysis, we bring the air travel recovery into context with increasingly cloudy economic horizons. Despite calls to pick a side between aviation growth or a global recession, we find evidence that both can be true – an apparent contradiction worthy of the wild times in which we find ourselves today.

Air India joins aircraft boom, but history of airline busts loom

Jon Ostrower·February 27, 2023

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Airlines celebrate survival and ask how long this normal will last

Madhu Unnikrishnan·June 16, 2023

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Boeing reliance on Russia underscores aerospace industry’s failure to have it all

Jon Ostrower·March 2, 2022

The western civil & defense aerospace business has long believed that Russia could be its customer, supplier and adversary to its patron governments – all at the same time.

Disconnecting Russia from aviation’s world order came gradually – then all at once

Jon Ostrower·February 28, 2022

Denial of aviation is a weapon that predates the 21st century battlefield. Yet, with the return of war to Europe, it is also aviation’s Achilles’ heel. With it comes a cascading series of immediate and longer term consequences in the skies as commercial and industrial links are quickly broken after decades of cultivation following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Embraer’s strategy hinges on China amid Brazil posture shift

Jon Ostrower·April 12, 2023

Brazil’s thrice-elected president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is slated to meet with China’s leader Xi Jinping on April 14, in a pivotal visit between the nations with a potentially profound impact on western aerospace.

How the war in Ukraine transformed Finnair

Madhu Unnikrishnan·June 2, 2023

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Inside a failed attempt to repo an Aeroflot A321neo in Egypt

Jon Ostrower·March 7, 2022

The failed March 2 mission was one of the very first known attempts by a lessor to repossess a Russian-based commercial aircraft, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Air Current. What is typically an unremarkable journey connecting Moscow to Cairo would shine a spotlight on the unfolding collapse of Russian commercial aviation, shaking the foundations of international law.

A set of main landing gear for the Boeing 777 in Everett, Wash., made from titanium components provided by VSMPO in Russia.

Russian titanium avoids the crossfire between east and west

Jon Ostrower·April 10, 2022

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TAC/Forum: Russia, Ukraine and the global aerospace supply chain

TAC Staff·March 9, 2022

On March 8, 2022, The Air Current's Editor-in-chief Jon Ostrower and Senior Editor Elan Head hosted an in-depth and candid discussion with Dr. Kevin Michaels, Managing Director of AeroDynamic Advisory on Russia and the global aerospace supply chain.