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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Kerry Lynch

Following the mixed results in the first half of 2019, Argus is anticipating business aviation operations in the U.S. will continue to gain strength in the second half, with increases anticipated in most months, the data specialist forecast said in its newly released 2019 Mid-year Business Aviation Review.

 


In the first six months, business aviation turbine operations in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean were up three months and down three months. But overall, flight activity through the first six months was up 0.3 percent from 2018 and flight hours rose 0.7 percent.

 


Charter operations slipped in each of the first six months and ended down 2.2 percent in the first half. However, the fractional segment made gains throughout the first half, culminating in a 6.2 percent year-over-year gain. The Part 91 segment saw a slight improvement, up in four of the six months and 0.7 percent overall during the period, Argus reported.

 


Despite this, flights were down for all aircraft segments except midsize jets in the first half.&nbsp;Flight activity for midsize jets was up 3.3 percent in the first half, but down 0.6 percent for large-cabin jets, 1.8 percent for light jets, and 0.4 percent for turboprops.

 


Gama Aviation Signature logged the most hours of the 135 carriers in the first half at 42,020, which was down from the 43,974 in the first half of 2018. The next closest in terms of flight hours was Executive Jet Management at 31,053 hours, followed by XOJet (23,209), Delta Private Jets (20,314), and Solairus Aviation (15,581).

 


Argus anticipates that business aviation will be up 2 percent year-over-year in the second half, with September and December expected to bring the strongest gains in this period. Argus forecasts a 4.6 percent increase in September and 3.3 percent in December. Bolstering this is that returns for July surpassed initial expectations of a 1 percent rise; it actually logged a 2.4 percent increase.

Argus Sees Ops Growth after Mixed First Half

Bizav flight activity and hours were up just slightly in North America in the first half, with mid-cabin jets making the only gains, by aircraft size.

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