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, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

Editor, AIN monthly magazine

Kerry Lynch

Business aviation traffic in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean ticked up 1.8 percent year-over-year in April, driven by a strong increase in fractional activity and improvements in Part 91 flights, according to the latest Argus TraqPak monthly report. At the same time though, Part 135 operations marked the 11th&nbsp;consecutive month of decline.

 


Fractional operations improved 7.7 percent overall last month when compared with April 2018, led by an 11.3 percent jump in light-jet flights.&nbsp;Fractional flights involving midsize jets also improved 12.1 percent in the month. Large-jet fractional flights, however, declined 13.2 percent year-over-year in April, marking the largest slide for any business aviation category or aircraft size.

 


Part 91 flights strengthened by 2.6 percent in April with all aircraft categories showing increased activity. Midsize-jet flights marked the greatest gain at 3.7 percent, followed by light jets at 2.8 percent. As for Part 135 flights, activity was down year-over-year by 1.3 percent last month as light-jet flights in this category dropped by 7.6 percent. Part 135 flights involving turboprops were also down 0.7 percent.&nbsp; But large-jet Part 135 flights were up 3.1 percent.

 


When combining the various operation types (Part 91, 135, and fractionals), midsize-jet activity overall showed the strongest, up 4.8 percent. But all aircraft categories showed increases overall. Argus expects traffic to continue to improve this month, forecasting a 1 percent year-over-year increase.

Bizav Activity Strengthens in April in North America

An 11.3 percent jump in light-jet fractional flights helped drive overall improvements in business aviation traffic in U.S., Canada, and Caribbean.

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