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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Global business aviation flight activity inched down by 0.3% in September as the North American market was off by 3.4% and Europe by 3.2%, according to the latest report from industry analyst and safety specialist Argus International.
"Another month of status quo for business aviation. North America and Europe remain in a familiar trend while the remaining regions of the world are looking very strong so far in 2024,” said Travis Kuhn, senior v-p of software for Argus. “We say it every month, but our focus remains on the Part 135 market for signs that this cooling period is coming to an end. Right now the market is stable but it continues to see lower demand in the large cabin market.”
In North America, traffic was in line with Argus’ forecast of a 3.6% dip with fractional activity as the only segment up, by 6.9%, in September year-over-year (YOY). Part 135 continued a downward trend of 5.4% while Part 91 activity similarly dropped by 5.6%. Traffic decreased in all four aircraft categories with large cabins posting the biggest YOY decline of 8.1%. This was followed by turboprops, down by 4.7%, small cabins at -2.3%, and midsize jets at -0.8%.
Despite the overall decline in Europe, activity edged up by 0.8% in the large cabin segment and by 0.2% with midsize jets. However, light jet activity was still off by 4.4% and turboprops by 10%.
The rest of the world posted a 28.9% jump in business aviation flight activity with turboprops showing a 36.9% improvement. Midsize jets followed closely behind, up 36.9%. Small jets showed strength with a 29.1% increase in activity, and large-cabin jets also saw an increase, up 10.1%.
Argus forecast that traffic will remain down YOY in October, by 2.7% in North America and 3.6% in Europe.

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