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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Global business aircraft flight activity continued to strengthen in January, finishing the month up by 2.4% year over year (YOY) with operations increasing by 1.3% in North America and by 0.5% in Europe, aviation researcher and safety specialist Argus International reported yesterday. Further, Argus anticipates this growth to continue this month, projecting a 1.3% YOY increase in North America and 4.3% jump in Europe.
The activity in North America was actually muted by the winter weather in January. Citing its TraqPak data, Argus noted that flights were up by 6.5% from January 1 to 22 YOY but then declined by 10.9% during the rest of the month following the major winter storm that covered a large swath of the U.S. and the subsequent extreme cold.
As a result, the only operational category to finish on the upside was fractional in January, increasing by 10.3% YOY. Part 91 activity finished down by 0.8% and Part 135 by 0.9% YOY in January.
By aircraft categories, midsize-cabin aircraft activity improved by 2.2% in January, followed by light jets at a 2.1% increase and turboprops at 0.2% on the plus side. Large jets flew 21 fewer flights, but operations were statistically flat. The greatest gain of the month came with fractional turboprops, up 17.3% YOY, while large-cabin Part 135 activity declined the most, down 5.5%.
In Europe, business aircraft activity has now been up for nine months in a row. However, turboprop activity dropped by 8.2% YOY in January, and small-cabin operators similarly declined by 2.7%. On the positive side, large-cabin jet activity increased by 8% and midsize cabins by 3.2% YOY in January.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the regions, all categories of aircraft saw increased activity, but it is the turboprops and small cabins leading the gains (by 9.7% and 16.7%, respectively). This was followed by midsize cabins at 6.3% and large cabins at 1.5% YOY in January.
“Overall activity for January looked good to start the year. We saw some weather impacts across North America as activity…We don’t see that as a negative moving forward and still see the indicators looking strong for 2026,” said Travis Kuhn, senior v-p of software for Argus.

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