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 International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) brought its largest delegation yet to the 42nd Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that concluded on Friday, culminating in resolutions strengthening sustainability efforts, condemning spoofing incidents, and expanding on air transportation access.&nbsp;The ICAO meeting brought together delegations from 192 member states and 58 international organizations to address sustainability, safety, security, and other key matters.
“The global business aviation community fully engaged at this Assembly with 24 members in the IBAC delegation, our largest ever,” said IBAC director general Kurt Edwards. “Beyond achieving our objective to raise the profile of business aviation at the assembly, we successfully promoted a number of safety, security, and environmental matters, including placing on ICAO’s radar the security and safety implications of flight tracking using ADS-B.”
Other areas include work on crew fatigue management, the commitment to the 2050 net-zero goal, and satellite navigation radio frequency interference concerns, IBAC reported.&nbsp;In addition, the assembly focused on positive safety culture, cybersecurity, and collaboration with industry and member states on the applicability dates of ICAO standards.
Among the outcomes of the assembly was an endorsement of the ICAO Global Framework for sustainable aviation fuels, lower carbon aviation fuels, and other cleaner energy sources—along with a collective target of 5% CO2&nbsp;reduction by 2030.
The assembly called for a full rollout of the ICAO Finvest Hub to connect decarbonization projects with public and private investors and strengthened its commitment to the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (Corsia) market-based measure.
In other areas, the assembly in two resolutions condemned GNSS radio frequency Interference originating from the Democrat People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation, finding infractions of the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation.

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