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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President Donald Trump’s nomination for the role of ambassador and U.S. representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization is rankling the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which has been at loggerheads with the nominee, Jeffrey Anderson, over the airplane pilot mandatory retirement age.
On Thursday, the White House announced the nomination of Anderson to the role that has been vacant since C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the famed pilot who successfully landed an Airbus A320 on New York’s Hudson River in 2009, abruptly resigned in June 2022, just six months into the post.
Anderson—who had served as a Delta Air Lines pilot for 25 years and as Delta’s national representative with ALPA, as well as on the union’s PAC board—has also founded and served as policy director with Enclave Policy Partners to provide independent policy analysis.
However, he has campaigned to raise the airline pilot retirement age from 65 to 67, writing an opinion piece in 2024 entitled “How the Pilots Union Campaign Against Its Own Members Could Mean Heavy Turbulence for Organized Labor and Their Champions in Washington.”
Shortly after Trump's announcement, ALPA voiced strong opposition to Anderson’s selection, issuing a statement that Anderson “is unqualified” to fulfill the mission of maintaining the U.S.’s global leadership in aviation safety.

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