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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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/global-airline-testing-order_2021-01-2_R3-signed-encrypted-p.pdf"> an order</a> on Tuesday requiring all air passengers entering the U.S. to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test&nbsp;or recovery of the virus. Effective January 26, passengers&nbsp;two years or older will be required to provide written documentation (either electronic or paper) of a negative result from a test taken within three days of the flight's departure or recovery of the virus. The order builds on <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/pdf/UK-Airline-Testing-Order_CLEAN-R3-signed-12252020-encrypted.pdf">requirements in place for UK commercial passengers</a>.

 


Operators&nbsp;must confirm the negative result or documentation of recovery before the passenger boards, the CDC said. Operators must deny boarding to any passenger who fails to provide such documentation or refuses the test. The order applies to "any airline or operator with an aircraft arriving into the U.S." Crewmembers are exempt, as are federal law enforcement personnel on official duties and those carrying Covid-19 patients with CDC authorization.

 


“It’s important to note this order applies to all aircraft operators, including non-commercial aircraft operators,” said Brian Koester, director of flight operations and regulations for NBAA. “NBAA previously requested the CDC and FAA provide alternate procedures for passengers departing countries with no Covid-19 testing capacity or documentation that doesn’t meet the CDC requirements for a qualifying test. The order published recently provides a waiver process for those scenarios.”

 


The National Air Transportation Association (NATA), meanwhile, strongly advised “operators to proactively reach out to international travelers to ensure they have a testing plan for their trip.” In addition, NATA said operators should also review contracts and cancelation policies to ensure they account for any potential contingencies associated with the order. These range from a positive test to passenger refusal to test or provide documentation, or passenger failure to test in the required timeframe.

 


Noting the U.S. is already in surge status for the virus and new international variants are showing increased transmissibility, the CDC said testing before and after travel is critical to slow the introduction and spread of Covid-19.

 


“Testing does not eliminate all risk,” said CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, who signed the order, “but when combined with a period of staying at home and everyday precautions like wearing masks and social distancing, it can make travel safer, healthier, and more responsible by reducing spread on planes, in airports, and at destinations.”

 


The new CDC order could provide a path to unwinding proclamations issued by President Donald Trump in the early stages of the Covid pandemic that excluded all citizens of China, Iran, the European Union, and the UK from entering the U.S. in almost all circumstances. The <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2020-05-15/travel-restrictions-raise-fear-more-painful-airline-recovery">ban covered </a>more than two billion people (just over one-quarter of the world’s population) and also applied&nbsp;to any non-U.S. citizens and travelers from other countries who had been to any of these territories in the previous 14 days.

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