The Air Current

1 week ago | theaircurrent.com | Jon Ostrower

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber HEAR FROM THE AIR CURRENT Leave this field empty if you're human: Release Date April 16, 2025 Tariff uncertainty forces undelivered Chinese 737s back to Seattle The deepening trade war between the United States and China is being fought at Boeing’s doorstep as the company absorbs the impact of a refusal to take delivery of heavily tariffed commercial passenger planes destined for Chinese airlines. Reporting from Bloomberg News and the Wall Street...

1 week ago | theaircurrent.com | Will Guisbond

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber HEAR FROM THE AIR CURRENT Leave this field empty if you're human: Release DateApril 16, 2025A notional G5000 Prime is on the horizon as Garmin’s next big avionics evolution Garmin has quietly been developing the next iteration of its integrated flight deck for Part 25 transport category aircraft.

2 weeks ago | theaircurrent.com | Will Guisbond

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber HEAR FROM THE AIR CURRENT Leave this field empty if you're human: Release Date April 7, 2025 Bryan Bedford’s history of grabbing aviation’s third rails When Bryan Bedford took the helm of a “broken” Republic Airways in the summer of 1999, its owners told him he could “do whatever [he] want[ed]” to right the regional airline, he recalled to a group of Liberty University students in October 2019. Ultimately, Bedford, a devout Catholic, said he decided...

2 weeks ago | theaircurrent.com | Jon Ostrower

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber HEAR FROM THE AIR CURRENT Leave this field empty if you're human: Release DateApril 4, 2025Resurgent U.S. mercantilism upsets an aviation system engineered for globalization The New York Times first mentioned the word globalization in its pages in 1981.

3 weeks ago | theaircurrent.com | Jon Ostrower |Will Guisbond

Log-in here if you’re already a subscriber HEAR FROM THE AIR CURRENT Leave this field empty if you're human: Release Date March 31, 2025 Wing production bedevils ‘fragile’ Boeing 737 Max ramp-up progress In February, Boeing moved to advance production of the 737 Max to 38 airplanes each month. The production system that assembles each single-aisle airplane in Renton, Washington briefly reached that rate, having jumped from 31 airplanes per month. But as the company advanced to a pace not seen...