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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While its aircraft share sales have increased this year, NetJets' earnings suffered in the third quarter as the company continued to streamline its fleet with the cancellations of some older orders and the realignment with new models. In the quarter, NetJets reported a 37-percent drop in earnings from “increased nonfuel flight operation costs and increased general and administrative expenses, including fees to cancel certain aircraft purchases,” parent company Berkshire Hathaway reported.

 


Berkshire Hathaway often does not break out specifics on revenues and earnings for NetJets and its sister company FlightSafety International, and did not specify which aircraft cancellations eroded earnings in the third quarter. But French airframer Dassault in July reported the cancellation of a NetJets order for 20 Falcon 2000s that dated back to 2006.

 


The third-quarter results erased earlier gains in NetJets' earnings this year, with profits now down 7 percent year-over-year. This comes as its revenues increased 5 percent in the first nine months, primarily from an increase in aircraft sales, Berkshire Hathaway said. Revenues have been up overall even though flight operations revenues softened from lower fuel cost recoveries.

 


As the company canceled orders, NetJets is taking delivery of its&nbsp;streamlined fleet including the new Bombardier Challenger 650.<a href="https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2015-11-16/netjets-readying-challenger-650-service-entry"> NetJets formally accepted the first Challenger last month at NBAA 2015</a>, one of seven it expects to take this year and part of a firm order for 25 and options for another 25. The majority of the new aircraft are replacing models that NetJets is phasing out of its fleet, but sales of the 650 have been strong with most of the early deliveries already pre-sold, said Patrick Gallagher, executive vice president of sales and marketing for NetJets U.S. and Europe.

 


NetJets has been training crews and readying the recently certified 650 for entry-into-service within the next two weeks . The first 650 share-owner received a flight aboard the aircraft from Naples, Fla., to NBAA 2015 in Las Vegas, Gallagher said, adding the feedback was very positive.

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