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 average hourly rate for guaranteed jet cards ticked up in the second quarter by roughly half a point from a year ago, but softened by 1% from the first quarter, according to data from Private Jet Card Comparisons (PJCC).
In North America, rates averaged $11,314 per hour by the end of June, an amount that PJCC said is 27% more than pre-Covid levels. PJCC, which maintains a database comparing more than 1,000 jet card and fractional offerings, explained that jet cards typically guarantee base hourly pricing for at least a year. However, this may vary with jet cards that apply and adjust fuel surcharges that are assessed when members fly. &nbsp;
“Jet card rates at the end of the first quarter benefited as fuel surcharges driven by jet fuel prices dipped at the end of the quarter,” said PJCC president and editor-in-chief Doug Gollan.
Light-jet guaranteed rates slid by 1.2% from the first quarter, to $8,456 per hour, but were up 1.4% year over year (YOY). Meanwhile, the average for the ultra-long-range jet was down 0.5% quarter over quarter, to $19,202 per hour, but up by 0.9% YOY. The only quarter-over-quarter increase came with super-midsize jets, up 0.7% to $12,526. This category was also up 0.5% YOY.
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