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 aircraft flight activity in North America last year ended up by 5.1 percent over 2021 but traffic remained largely flat for the last three quarters of 2022, according to Argus International’s year-end analysis released on Friday.&nbsp;“We began 2022 in arguably the strongest position business aviation has ever been in, but we ended 2022 with some of the first activity losses since the pandemic began to loosen its grip on air travel,” says&nbsp;Argus’s "2022 North America Business Aviation Review."
Traffic continued to surge in the first quarter of 2022, up 23.2 percent year-over-year. But the last nine months of the year&nbsp;combined for just a 0.4 percent gain over the same period in 2021. This was still well above pre-pandemic levels, up 15.2 percent from 2019.&nbsp;While activity was up in the single digits in 2022, flight hours soared&nbsp;10.6 percent from 2021, Argus added. &nbsp;
Large cabin jet operations led the year-over-year gains in 2022, with an increase of 11.4 percent. This was followed by midsize jets,&nbsp;5.2 percent; light jets, 4.6 percent;&nbsp;and turboprops, 2.3 percent.
By operational category, Part 135 began to see the jump in operations wane, ending the year at a 1.3 percent increase over 2021. Fractional operations saw a 6.6 percent increase, and Part 91 operations improved by 7.9 percent, with large-cabin activity in that category up 13.9 percent.
As for flight hours, large cabins led with a 23.9 percent increase, followed by midsize jets,&nbsp;9.4 percent;&nbsp;light&nbsp;jets,&nbsp;6.4 percent;&nbsp;and turboprops,&nbsp;6.2 percent.

Argus: North America Gains in Business Aviation Operations Ebbed in 2022 

Argus said bizav activity last year still remained up by 5.1 percent over 2021 operations in North America, but was mostly flat in last nine months.

Argus: North America Gains in Bizav Ops Ebbed in 2022

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