Business aviation may still be brimming with righteous indignation over recent attacks by President Barack Obama (in the row over bonus depreciation) and The Wall Street Journal (over the Block Aircraft Registration Request issue), but it now faces bigger and more tangible problems.
The return of the global financial crisis signaled by the downgrading of the U.S. government’s credit rating and mounting national debt melt-downs in Europe pose a far greater threat to bizav’s well-being than any perceived sense of hurt inflicted by a grandstanding commander-in-chief and sanctimonious hypocrisy of reporters who eat their daily bread from the sweaty palm of discredited press baron Rupert Murdoch.
Charles Alcock is managing editor of the AIN Media Group, having rejoined the company in 2019. He has been an aviation journalist since 1986, and previously worked for AIN from 1990 to 2017, most recently as editor-in-chief. His main focus is on covering new aviation technology and business models, as well as international news.
Having been raised in the London area, Alcock studied at the University of Manchester in the UK and earned an honors degree in Politics and Modern History. He speaks English and French, and some German.
