Three Points: Pilotless Caravans, a new USAF strategy, COVID era’s top 10 airlines

Issue No. 32

Why Cessna’s Grand Caravan is being swarmed by aerospace start-ups.
The new U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff has detailed a major shift in the service’s strategic thinking.
In the last year, there have been 21 airlines that have slid up, down, on and off the rankings for the top 10 largest airlines in the world.

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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