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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As the global outbreak of Covid-19 deepens, NBAA and the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA)&nbsp;canceled their hallmark European event and the second-largest business aviation show globally, the European Business Aviation Convention &amp; Exhibition 2020 (EBACE2020), the organizations announced on Sunday.

 


The event was to have been held in Geneva from May 26 to 28, but Europe is facing numerous Covid-19-related travel and other restrictions. In fact, the move came one day before the European Union announced on Monday plans to introduce a 30-day ban on non-essential travel for most non-EU citizens in its 27 member states. Exceptions include long-term residents of EU&nbsp;and citizens of Iceland, Liechenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.

 


Additionally, Switzerland has banned all events of more than 100 people in place through the end of April. This was an extension and an expansion of the initial ban of events with more than 1,000 people that was to have gone through mid-March. The Swiss authorities further are indicating plans to reintroduce Schengen border checks.

 


While such restrictions right now are still not into May, the long lead times required for an event the scale of EBACE2020 necessitate&nbsp;an earlier decision, organizers have explained. Further, they have agreed to refund exhibit and registration fees in full.&nbsp;

 


“This is the hardest decision EBAA’s management and board of governors have had to make in years,” said EBAA secretary-general Athar Husain Khan. “But given the unprecedented circumstances, we had no other choice. We must do everything we can to help protect against exposure to Covid-19, and mitigate any risks associated with the spread of the virus.”

 


NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen added, “We view our participants as partners, whose health and well-being is our foremost concern, and that priority is front-and-center in our decision to cancel EBACE2020.”

 


The decision is the latest in a spate of large-event cancelations ongoing globally and follows NBAA’s decision last week to shorten its Schedulers &amp; Dispatchers Conference (S&amp;D) by a day and <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2020-03-12/nbaa-shortens-sd-cancels-ioc-eyes-future-events">cancel its upcoming 2020 International Operators Conference</a> (IOC2020) and Business Aircraft Finance, Registration, &amp; Legal Conference.

 


In addition, the Aircraft Electronics Association opted to postpone its International Convention &amp; Trade Show that was scheduled for March 24 to 27&nbsp;in Nashville, as did organizers of <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/general-aviation/2020-03-06/aero-friedrichshafen-postponed-amid-virus-effects">Aero Friedrichshafen</a> and Sun n’ Fun Aerospace Expo.

NBAA, EBAA Shelve EBACE for 2020

The convention was the latest of numerous aviation events that have been canceled in recent weeks in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

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