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.

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With an eye on the increasing outbreak of COVID-19, NBAA is closing its Schedulers &amp; Dispatchers Conference (S&amp;D) today, a day early, as well as canceling its upcoming 2020 International Operators Conference (IOC2020) and Business Aircraft Finance, Registration, &amp; Legal Conference. Working with its board, NBAA also is evaluating other events scheduled through July 1, the association added, saying “information will be coming out shortly.”

 


S&amp;D, which opened on March 10, was set to go through Friday in Charlotte, North Carolina.&nbsp;NBAA has decided to cancel all educational programming on Friday but said it is exploring options for virtually providing some educational content from that programming at some point in the future.

 


In addition, NBAA is exploring possibilities to facilitate a virtual version of IOC2020 in April. That event had been scheduled for March 16 to 19, also in Charlotte. Details on a virtual version are anticipated shortly.&nbsp;Its now-canceled Business, Aircraft Finance, Registration, &amp; Legal Conference was to have been held March 22 to 24 in Amelia Island, Florida.

 


“As with all NBAA events, we view our participants as partners whose health, safety, and security is always our foremost concern, and that is the guiding principle behind our decision on these three events,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen, adding the organization continues to monitor guidance from authorities such as the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as it considers future events.

 


<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-02-07/nbaa-scraps-abace-2020-amid-virus-concerns">NBAA has already canceled ABACE</a>, which was to have been held next month in Shanghai. Looming large is EBACE, one of NBAA’s cornerstone events that is held annually in conjunction with the European Business Aviation Association toward the end of May in Geneva. As with ABACE, decisions need to be made earlier for EBACE, given the logistics of setting up such a large-scale exhibition.

 


EBAA&nbsp;canceled of its 2020 annual meetings event that had been&nbsp;scheduled from March&nbsp;19 to 20 in Brussels, and similarly, the<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/general-aviation/2020-03-06/aero-friedrichshafen-postponed-amid-virus-effects"> organizers of Aero Friedrichshafen have postponed that event,</a> which had been scheduled April 1 to 4.

 


“We will keep members and partners apprised with regard to how this challenging and continually evolving situation impacts upcoming events,” Bolen said.

 


The move to cancel IOC2020 and the finance conference does not come as a surprise in light of growing travel restrictions, including <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-03-12/bizav-braces-fallout-us-ban-euro-flights">involving Europe</a>, and as cancelations are widely spreading throughout schools, sporting events, and other activities involving larger-scale gatherings.

NBAA Shortens S&D, Cancels IOC, Eyes Future Events

NBAA is looking at providing virtual material from S&D, as well as IOC, as it weighs the future of other events scheduled through July 1.

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