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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Florida, Texas, and California led business aircraft operations in North America last year, helping to drive the region to a 3.4% year-over-year gain, according to Argus International’s 2025 Business Aviation Review.
Citing its TraqPak data, Argus noted that 47 out of the 50 states logged increased activity in 2025, with the largest yearly increase occurring in Rhode Island, which was up by 20% YOY. Kentucky marked the largest decline, down 1.9%. Michigan and Maine were the only other states to see a dip in activity, falling 0.7% and 0.4%, respectively.
As for the busiest states, Florida led with 384,080 business aircraft flights in 2025, followed by Texas at 328,584, and California at 285,045. Rounding out the top five were Georgia (113,996) and Colorado (110,840). Meanwhile, New Hampshire (12,727), West Virginia (9,592), Rhode Island (6,868), Vermont (5,387), and Delaware (5,368) marked the fewest flights.
Meanwhile, by day of the week, Thursday proved to be the busiest, averaging 10,932 flights per day, followed by Friday at an average of 10,515. Saturday was the slowest at 7,506. However, YOY flight activity increased on all days of the week, with Tuesday seeing the biggest bump of 4.7% for an average of 9,653 daily flights. Flights on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday increased by an average of 3.1% YOY.
But the busiest day of the year occurred on the Sunday after the U.S. Thanksgiving celebration (November 30), with 12,971 flights logged. The second busiest was the Friday before Thanksgiving (November 21), with 12,965 flights. Conversely, the slowest day was Thanksgiving Day (November 27), at 4,046 flights.
Flights topped 12,000 on 12 days in North America in 2025, while the 10,000 mark was reached on 168 days, up from 133 in 2024.
As for forecasting 2026 activity, Argus expects increases in each month except a slight YOY dip (-0.1%) in September. This is providing a bullish outlook. Argus noted: “Overall, if the state of the industry could be summed up in one word, it would be ‘growing.’ That is a great place to be coming off one of the strongest years on record.”

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