Linda Blachly is Senior Associate Editor for Air Transport World and Aviation Week. She joined the company in July 2010 and is responsible for producing features for Air Transport World’s monthly magazine and engaging content for the aviationweek.com. She is based in the Washington DC office.
Linda received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
Previous positions include Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, Trips & Getaways magazine; Editor, The Bowie Blade-News, published by Capital-Gazette Communications; and Managing Editor, The Prince George’s Sentinel. She has also worked as an editor for book publishers, Maryland Historical Press and BOMI Institute.
Linda lives in Gambrills, MD and enjoys family time with her three adult children and six grandchildren.
Southwest Airlines and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)—representing the carrier’s approximately 6,000 customer service agents and customer support and services representatives—have reached a tentative agreement for a new four-year contract. The current contract became amendable in October 2012.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent of Allegiant Air, is reporting third-quarter net income of $14.2 million, down 17.2% from net income of $17.1 million in the year-ago quarter.
Boeing and Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) have opened a demonstration facility—called the China-US Aviation Biofuel Pilot Project—that will turn waste cooking oil, commonly referred to as “gutter oil” in China, into sustainable aviation biofuel.
