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 aviation has been consistently inelastic to fuel price swings, and that trend is holding true with the most recent conflict in the Middle East, WingX reported today. Noting that global business jet activity was up 4.4% year over year (YOY) during the week ending May 3, and by 4.6% since the beginning of the year, WingX maintained that demand is shrugging off the fuel price swings.
Likewise, in 2022, when the Russia-Ukraine conflict generated a spike in fuel prices, business jet departures still increased, WingX reported. “Through the past six years of a pandemic and conflict outbreaks, the correlation between fuel cost and bizjet flying activity has been weak,” the data analyst maintained.
At the same time, though, the conflict continues to take a toll on operations in the Middle East, albeit less so than in late March and early April. Fuel uplift in the Middle East was down by 10% YOY for the week from April 27 to May 3&nbsp;over the baseline leading up to the conflict with Iran. But that still was up 10% from the prior week. By comparison, in the week ending April 5, fuel uplift was off by 45% YOY.
As for global activity, operations jumped by 5.2% YOY in North America and 7% in Europe last week. In South America, activity was up 15.7%.

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