The Air Current
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Data-driven reporting & analysis on the business, technology and strategy of flying. There’s always an aviation angle.
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Jon Ostrower
Editor-in-chief of @theaircurrent, co-founder @yawmanflight. Chaser of things that fly, dad, unapologetic geek. CNN, WSJ & Flightglobal alum.
Jason Rabinowitz
Airlines, airplanes, transit, travel. #AvGeek. Co-host @flightradar24's AvTalk podcast. email: [email protected]. 🧵 https://t.co/sN5TXPYlhV
Scott Bateman MBE
Veteran | Owner 9-Line Media | TV Producer & Author | Professional Aviator & Aviation Consultant for Big and Small Screen | Personal Acct & View
Kelly Lepley ✈🌍👩✈️✈️👩👧👧🇺🇦
#TED Alumni, #Public Speaker, type rated; #SA227, #B75/767, #MD11, and current #Captain #B747 . Continual student, fascinated by life and the world I live in.
Seth Miller
Aviation journalist specializing in #IFEC, #Loyalty, #PaxEx.
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NTSB sanctions Boeing for sharing unauthorized Alaska 1282 information during media briefing theaircurrent.com/aviation-safet… (via Jon Ostrower Elan Head Will Guisbond) #staycurrent
Wheels Up lays off pilots as airline hiring slows and revenues slump (via Will Guisbond) #staycurrent theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche…
Boeing during Farnborough will leave 737 Max and 777X test aircraft at home theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche… (via Jon Ostrower) #staycurrent
Early reporting from The Air Current confirms from our own sources this report is accurate. We we’ve been following indications of a possible snag in the deal all day. Doesn’t seem like this is a dealbreaker.
Spirit AeroSystems ‘at the goal line’ on deal with Boeing and Airbus theaircurrent.com/industry-strat… (via Jon Ostrower)
Boeing is shifting engineers away from X-66A development theaircurrent.com/aircraft-devel… (via Jon Ostrower)
Boeing will lose on Capitol Hill, how much is up to David Calhoun theaircurrent.com/industry-strat… (via Jon Ostrower & Will Guisbond) #staycurrent
FAA will act to close ‘loophole’ for public charter flights theaircurrent.com/regulation/faa… (via Will Guisbond & Elan Head) #staycurrent
NEWS w/ Elan Head: The The FAA ✈️ will act, via rule making, to close the 'loophole' for public charter flights set out in Part 380, requiring companies like JSX to operate under Part 121. More on The Air Current theaircurrent.com/regulation/faa…
Icon Aircraft identifies successful bidder for sale of company (via Will Guisbond) #staycurrent theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche…
A ‘roller coaster’: Inside the FAA’s quest for stable funding theaircurrent.com/regulation/a-r… (via Will Guisbond) #staycurrent
New: the The FAA ✈️ appears poised to try and get off what FAA Mike Whitaker is calling a “roller coaster” of unstable funding spurred by shutdowns and lapses in authorizations (via The Air Current): theaircurrent.com/regulation/a-r…
Exclusive w/ Elan Head: Rep. Sharice Davids and Rep. Dusty Johnson have launched a Sustainable Aviation Caucus, a potentially telling indicator of the Hill's bipartisan appetite for solutions like SAF. More on The Air Current: theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche…
U.S. House reps launch bipartisan sustainable aviation caucus theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche… (via Will Guisbond & Elan Head) #staycurrent
Now that it has its Part 135 air carrier certificate in hand, Archer is ready to share more info on how it's thinking about eVTOL operations, including for its strategic investor United Airlines. Lots of details in my story for The Air Current: theaircurrent.com/industry-strat…