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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Aviation groups have intensified <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-09-29/natca-urges-congress-avoid-government-shutdown">their calls</a> to lawmakers in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate to avoid a government shutdown, sending leaders an urgent warning that halting federal operations at midnight would have many detrimental consequences.
“Government shutdowns harm the U.S. economy and degrade the redundancies and margins of safety that our National Airspace System (NAS) is built upon,” said <a href="https://nbaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Modern-Skies-Coalition-Shutdown-Letter-25.09.29.pdf">a letter</a> that 50 aviation stakeholders, unions, and trade groups&nbsp;collectively sent to House speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), as well as Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).
The groups reminded of efforts to “supercharge” air traffic controller hiring and expedite ATC system modernization. “A government shutdown at this stage would jeopardize the important progress that we all have made on these efforts thus far,” they said.
Although controllers, technicians, and other aviation safety professionals would be exempt from the shutdown, other FAA employees who support them would be furloughed, and controller hiring and training would be delayed, they added.
“Furthermore, shutdowns are both costly and harmful to our economy. The aviation industry in the U.S. contributes more than 5% to the gross domestic product, accounting for $1.37 trillion in 2023, while also helping to drive more than 10 million American jobs. Government shutdowns severely hinder this economic activity.”

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