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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Kerry Lynch

As debate has waged on over the future of the U.S. air traffic control organization, the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) has begun to brace for the increasing possibility of another short-term extension of the FAA’s authorization. The House has made the creation of an independent ATC organization the centerpiece of its multi-year reauthorization bill, and both sides of the ATC issue have been working feverishly to sway undecided lawmakers, to the point that one lobbyist remarked, “It’s a war out there.”

 


Chief proponents of the ATC reorganization—House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pennsylvania) and General Aviation Caucus co-chair Sam Graves (R-Missouri)—have been reaching out to individual heads of general aviation (GA) companies and other organizations hoping to change minds, while GA groups have held numerous meeting on Capitol Hill hoping to shore up opposition.

 


With this effort ongoing, the House leadership has indicated a reluctance to bring up the FAA reauthorization bill without adequate support. The House is set to break at the end of next week, leaving only September to complete work on a long-term bill, since the current authorization expires at the end of that month.The Senate bill, meanwhile, is less controversial in that chamber since it does not contain the ATC provision. But the bill has not yet made its way to the floor.

 


“With the various controversies surrounding what is in [and what is not in] pending House and Senate FAA reauthorization bills and with the clock quickly winding down, we appear to be headed for yet another extension,” AAAE said yesterday. N﻿oting it is continuing to push for other infrastructure issues such as the passenger facility charge and Airport Improvement Program funding, AAAE added, “It is our hope that Congress and the administration in the months ahead will find a way to provide more clarity—and progress on meeting promised infrastructure investments—than has been yielded to date in 2017.”

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