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.
US Airways flight attendants, represented by the Assn. of Flight Attendants (AFA) narrowly defeated a proposed five-year collective bargaining agreement, in a 51% to 49% vote.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) said that 40,000 seat reservations were cancelled on flights between Japan and China from September to November, due to escalating political tension between the two countries over a chain of disputed islands in the East, Reuters reported.
The European Union (EU) today filed a request for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to grant $12 billion in annual sanctions against the US “because of the US failure to withdraw subsidies in the dispute involving large civil aircraft,” according to a WTO statement.
