Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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A potential tie-up between the Boeing Company and Embraer could provide benefits to the Brazilian manufacturer’s business jet and military lines, but whether they would be included in any teaming agreement remains in question, analysts said.

 


The Boeing Company and Embraer last week confirmed they are engaged in talks over some sort of combination, but stressed “there is no guarantee a transaction will result from these discussions.”

 


Boeing/Embraer talks do not come as a surprise, given the looming alliance of rivals Airbus and Bombardier on the C Series. A pairing of Boeing and Embraer would enable Boeing to go head-to-head with the C Series. Noting a lack of overlap between the current Boeing and Embraer lineup, Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia said a “joint venture would offer upside to Boeing’s current businesses. The [Embraer] E-175/190/195 family would be a terrific complement to Boeing’s large jetliners.”

 


Embraer’s business jets and military aircraft may also be of interest to Boeing, Aboulafia said, adding, “Boeing’s global sales, marketing, and support presence, and of course its aggressive supply chain management methods, would be very useful to Embraer and these products.”

 


With Embraer completing work on the KC-390, E-2 jetliners, and Legacy 450/500 business jets, the company has “a lot of experienced, relatively low-cost engineers looking for something to do. And Embraer has no clear path for new product development,” he also added.

 


But Embraer’s product lines are a lower-margin business than any of Boeing’s jetliner products, Aboulafia said. “Embraer builds great business jets, but it entered the market during a very tough decade and has had to discount heavily to capture any kind of market share,” he noted.

 


Rolland Vincent, president of Rolland Vincent Associates, questioned whether Boeing would have interest in the Brazilian airframer's Executive Jets division given its lower-volume production and asked, “could the…division somehow be excluded from the deal, or find itself in an alignment with Gulfstream?”

Boeing/Embraer Talks Leave Open Questions on Bizjets

Boeing's vast infrastructure could provide a boost to Embraer's bizjet business, but whether Boeing is interested remains to be seen.

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