Three Points: Delta’s deals are done, business travel’s green shoots, Alice’s new look

Issue No. 43

Delta’s deals for used Airbus A350s and Boeing 737-900ERs are done. Don’t expect this to be Delta’s last bite at the gently-used A350 marketplace.
There are green shoots in the aviation economy as business travel shows real signs of life. The biggest buyers of corporate travel are slowly getting back to pre-pandemic postures and Canada is showing its first thaw in 16 months.
Eviation has given its Alice a big makeover as its first test aircraft comes together. The all-electric nine-seater is being assembled just north of Boeing’s own twin-aisle jet factory ahead of the aircraft’s first flight expected in the fall.

Jon Ostrower

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.

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