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 National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) praised a bill introduced by a bipartisan group of Senators calling on the FAA to hire controllers at a maximum authorized rate to address a staffing shortfall.
The Air Traffic Controllers Hiring Act of 2023, S.2839, comes as NATCA has warned that controller shortage <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2023-09-18/natca-controller-shortages-will-cause-more-disruptions?utm_campaign=AIN%20Alerts&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_hsmi=274759872&amp;utm_content=274759872&amp;utm_source=hs_email">could have repercussions</a> on air traffic delays for years if steps aren’t taken to address it.&nbsp; NATCA maintains that there are 1,200 fewer fully certified controllers than 10 years ago, and as a result, many work mandatory overtime. The association estimated that regular schedules for many controllers are 10 hours a day, six days a week.
S.2839 also comes as the FAA recently announced it is “rebuilding its training pipeline” and met its goal with the hiring of 1,500 air traffic controllers in 2023. The agency said it has about 2,600 controllers being trained across the country and plans to hire 1,800 controllers in the upcoming year if it receives that funding.
Warning that training takes time, acting FAA Administrator Polly Trottenberg said last week a government shutdown would disrupt that process and “the disruption is profound.” With the current fiscal year set to end on September 30, the path forward on government action on funding for FY2024 <a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2023-09-14/aviation-orgs-urge-washington-action">remains uncertain</a>, raising the prospect of a shutdown.
Sponsoring S.2839 were Sens. Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota), Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico), and John Boozman (R-Arkansas).
“This bipartisan bill, which also was included in the version of FAA reauthorization that has passed through the U.S. House, would put us on a path to fixing staffing shortages so that we can continue to operate the safest, most efficient aviation system in the world,” said NATCA president Rich Santa.

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