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.
Dubai International’s (DXB) cargo facilities are set to undergo a major modernization and expansion program that will see cargo capacity increase to 3.1 million tonnes by 2018, according to a statement by Dubai Airports. Over the next few months, as part of DXB’s $7.8 billion strategic plan 2020, construction will begin on a 30,000 sq. m. addition to its 1.2 million-tonne Cargo Mega Terminal (CMT), increasing capacity by 25% to 1.5 million tonnes a year.
