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

Raytheon Technologies is eliminating 15,000 positions across its commercial aerospace and corporate organizations, including at Pratt &amp; Whitney and Collins Aerospace, to strengthen the company as it navigates through the Covid-19 pandemic, Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes told investors recently. The tally is nearly double the original estimate the company had detailed in July. While Hayes said the company is looking to further ways to reduce costs of all its businesses, he was optimistic about the balance between commercial and defense during this time.

 


Plans of the cuts come about six months after Raytheon finalized its merger with United Technologies, a step that came just as Covid-19 had shuttered most airline activity globally. In its second-quarter report at the end of July, Raytheon had reported sales at Collins were down 35 percent year-over-year, commercial original equipment was down 53 percent and commercial aftermarket was down 48 percent. But the military sector was up 10 percent. This resulted in a 98 percent drop in operating profit.

 


Pratt &amp; Whitney posted similar numbers with adjusted sales down 30 percent in total; commercial original equipment was down 42 percent and commercial aftermarket was down 51 percent, while military was up 11 percent. Operating profit plunged 133 percent.

Raytheon Plans 15,000 Commercial Aerospace Job Cuts

Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney are are facing many of the 15,000 cuts that Raytheon is planning for its commercial aerospace and corporate groups.

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