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 FAA has reached its goal of hiring 2,000 air traffic controllers in fiscal year 2025, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced today. In fact, the agency has brought in 2,026 controllers since January, a 20% boost over the first nine months of 2024 and the result of a “supercharged” effort announced in February aimed at expediting hiring.
Under this initiative, the FAA has streamlined the air traffic controller hiring process, cutting down the time it takes by as much as five months. The agency is on pace to hire at least 8,900 controllers through 2028, including at least 2,200 in FY2026, the Department of Transportation said.
According to the agency, the goal is to fill every seat at the FAA Academy, where controllers are trained. Six hundred trainees were sent there in August alone, exceeding the record in July of 550. This marks the highest number of students in FAA history.
“These latest numbers show our supercharge effort is continuing to hit milestones, and we are making progress,” Duffy said. “Our work is just getting started. This department will continue to use every tool at our disposal to chip away at decades of controller staffing declines because the American people are counting on us.”

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