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

The U.S. Senate today passed the sweeping five-year FAA reauthorization bill, sending the measure to the White House for signature and enactment. Today’s vote culminated a four-plus-year process that involved six short-term extensions, several versions of the bill, hundreds of meetings on Capitol Hill, dozens of hearings, and one of the most contentious debates surrounding the future of the air traffic control organization.

 


Ultimately that process led to bipartisan legislation that passed the House last week by a 398-23 vote and the Senate by 93-6 and has broad support from most corners of the industry.&nbsp;Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune (R-South Dakota)&nbsp;praised its passage, noting it is the longest FAA authorization to be adopted since the 1980s and adding it represents "our collective effort" and bipartisan negotiation. The bill provides for long-term funding for the FAA—up to $96.7 billion through 2023—and touches upon numerous issues of importance to the industry, from certification and regulation to the enabling of the future of supersonic travel and the facilitating of an emergence of a range of new electrical and autonomous systems.

 


More specific to the business aviation community, it delves into issues surrounding Part 135 flight and duty time and accident data, the protection of the aircraft registry from the whims of the budget process, and a review of flight-sharing regulations, among many others.

 


But perhaps most important on the FAA front is what is missing from the bill: the proposal to carve the ATC organization out of the U.S. FAA and into an&nbsp;independent, user-funded entity. “This bill will provide a stable path forward for the FAA without controversial proposals to privatize our nation's ATC system,” said NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen, hailing its passage. “It is imperative that the agency be allowed to focus on modernization of our National Airspace System without distractions.”

 


Unveiled jointly by House and Senate leaders in the early hours of September 22, the compromise bill, the Aviation, Transportation Safety, and Disaster Recovery Reforms&nbsp;and Reauthorization (H.R.302), encompasses far more than just FAA issues.&nbsp;It also includes reauthorizations for the National Transportation Safety Board and Transportation Security Administration and further encompasses issues such as sports medicine licensing and disaster relief.

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