Podcast: Journalists’ Year-End Insights – The Biggest Stories and What’s Ahead

Dec. 6, 2021

It’s been a year unlike any before: The industry has rebounded from COVID-19 with strong flight demand, including from new entrants. New aircraft have been introduced. The push continued for advanced air mobility vehicles. Live events, including NBAA’s convention, resumed. What were the biggest stories along these lines, and what do they portend for the coming year? In this week’s podcast, two veteran aviation journalists discuss the headlines from 2021, and what’s in store for 2022.

Today, NBAA’s “Flight Plan” features perspectives on these topics and analysis of other top business aviation stories of the past year from two acclaimed aviation journalists:

  • Kerry Lynch, senior editor, Aviation International News
  • Molly McMillin, managing editor, Business Aviation, Aviation Week

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