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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Business aircraft flight activity in North America logged its highest year-over-year (YOY) gain of 2025 thus far in August, up by 4.4% as global activity increased overall by 3.7%, according to Argus International’s latest TraqPak report.&nbsp; Flight activity in Europe, meanwhile, marked its fourth positive month in a row, up by 1.9%.
"August was definitely a pleasant surprise for us,” said Travis Kuhn, Argus senior v-p of software. “We expected activity to gain, but demand outpaced our forecast yet again, and that's a problem we'll gladly accept. Positive Part 91 activity continues to contribute to the 2025 uptick in activity, coupled with a stable Part 135 market and a robust fractional market. Globally speaking, Europe finished out a positive summer after a few years of consistent declines."
Argus predicts the YOY increase will continue in September at a more muted pace of 2.1% in North America and a slightly heated clip in Europe at 2.9%.
Activity in North America was expected to increase by 2.0% in August, Argus noted. The continued strengthening comes as fractional operations continued to surge, with a 12.5% YOY gain. Part 135 operators flew 3.7% more YOY in August and Part 91 by 1.7%.
Midsize jet utilization saw the largest increase in the month of 5.4% more activity, but the fellow jet categories of small and large cabins were closely on the heels, up 5.3% and 5.2%, respectively.&nbsp; Turboprop activity increased by 2.2% in August. Large-cabin fractional operations posted the single largest improvement of 24.7%.
In Europe, large-cabin-jet activity took a significant jump upward YOY in August, by 6.9%, while small-cabin activity increased by 1.1% and midsize jets by 0.6%. These offset the 2.6% decline in turboprop flights.
As for the rest of the world, overall activity improved by 2.5%, with small-cabin flights surged by18.8%, followed by large cabin activity at 8.5% and midsize at 8%. Similar to the pattern in Europe, turboprop operations were on the decline in other parts of the world, with activity dropping by 5.6%.

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